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Maputo Pemba Tete Capital: Maputo Area: 799,380 km² Population: 19.3 million Ethnic groups: Shangaan, Chokwe, Manyika, Sena, Makua and others Official language(s): Portuguese Religion(s): indigenous beliefs, Christians (30%), Muslims (20%) Currency: 1 metical = 100 centavos Our facilities The work of SOS-Kinderdorf International in Mozambique started in 1986, when the decision was taken to establish a SOS Children's Village in Tete, capital of a province of the same name in the northeast of the country, to give home to some of the many children who had lost their parents in the war. In 1987 the cornerstone was laid and in May 1989 the SOS Children's Village Tete was officially opened. Two years later, in 1991, construction work on a second SOS Children's Village in Laulane, a suburb of the country's capital Maputo, commenced. In the last months of 1992, the first children moved in. On the occasion of the official opening ceremony of the SOS Children's Village Maputo on 15 February 1995, the idea of erecting a third SOS Children's Village began taking shape. A site was chosen in Pemba, capital of the province Cabo Delgado, about 2,000 km northeast of Maputo, but the construction work was not to be started until 1998. At the end of 1999 the construction work was completed and in 2000 the first families were able to move into the new family houses. Contact: Aldeia de Crianças SOS Moçambique C.P. 2062, Bairro do Laulane Maputo Mozambique tel. +258-1-400 850 fax +258-1-400 848