The latest proof-of-delivery posts from NGOs across Mauritius.
School sorting programme is now in twenty-two schools. The format that works is the one where the pupils run the audit themselves and present the results to their own headmaster — considerably more effective than any assembly we have ever given.
We can take four more schools this term.
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Six new points are live — three in Plaines Wilhems, two in Moka, one in Port Louis. Tonnage across the whole network for the quarter came to 148 tonnes, of which glass is still the largest fraction by weight and PET by volume.
The Curepipe point had to be relocated forty metres after complaints about the collection lorry blocking a lane. Worth mentioning because siting is the part of this work that people underestimate.
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The October awareness campaign reached fourteen workplaces and six community centres, with 1,600 people attending a session and 430 screening referrals made on the spot.
If your company wants a session, we can run it in English, French or Creole, and it takes forty minutes.
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Eighty-two patients used the transport service this quarter, across 940 individual journeys. Not one of them missed a scheduled session for transport reasons, which is the only metric this project has.
Two of our four vehicles are past 200,000 km and the maintenance is becoming the second-largest line in the budget.
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Nous cherchons des employeurs prêts à recevoir un candidat accompagné. Concrètement : un entretien, un tuteur désigné dans l’entreprise, et notre travailleur social joignable pendant les six premiers mois. Nous ne demandons aucune faveur à l’embauche, seulement que le dossier soit lu.
Quatorze entreprises travaillent déjà avec nous de cette manière.
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Dix-neuf personnes accompagnées à la sortie ce trimestre. Onze ont un emploi ou une formation à six mois, trois sont en hébergement de transition, et deux ont été perdues de vue — nous les comptons aussi, parce que ne compter que les réussites ne dit rien de ce que fait un programme.
Notre statut NSIF est arrivé à échéance et le dossier de renouvellement est en cours d’instruction.
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Trois sessions de sensibilisation menées ce mois-ci auprès de personnels de santé et de travailleurs sociaux, sur le repérage des situations de violence et sur ce qu’il faut faire — et ne pas faire — quand une femme parle pour la première fois.
Nous pouvons intervenir en entreprise. Écrivez-nous via cette page.
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Le refuge a accueilli 27 femmes et 31 enfants ce trimestre. Le taux d’occupation est resté au-dessus de 90 % pendant onze semaines consécutives, ce qui veut dire concrètement que nous avons dû orienter ailleurs des demandes que nous aurions voulu prendre.
Le suivi post-hébergement à douze mois porte aujourd’hui sur 64 femmes. C’est la partie du travail la moins visible et celle qui décide du reste.
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Thirty-eight devices fitted this quarter: 14 wheelchairs, 9 hearing aids, 7 prosthetic limbs and 8 mobility aids. Every one of them was assessed and fitted rather than handed over, and all 38 recipients are booked for their six-month adjustment.
The children’s wheelchair waiting list is the pressure point — a growing child needs a new chair roughly every eighteen months and the fund is not currently sized for that.
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Nineteen of the thirty-two participants from the last cohort are in work six months after placement. That is the highest we have recorded, and the difference is almost entirely on the employer side — the four companies that took the accessibility audit seriously account for most of the retained placements.
Applications for the March cohort open next week.
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We are looking for two more corporate partners to fund cohort places for 2027. What that involves in practice: a three-year commitment per household, quarterly reporting against the family plans you are funding, and — if you want it — the chance for your staff to meet the mentors doing the work.
Contact us through this page and we will send the cohort brief.
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The 2026 cohort is fully enrolled: sixty households, matched with mentors, first plans written. The most common first milestone this year — as it is most years — is a birth certificate or a national identity card, without which nothing else in the plan can legally happen.
From the 2023 cohort now finishing: 71 per cent of households have a stable income source, against 22 per cent at entry. The full report will be published next quarter.
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The carpentry cohort finished their first commissioned build this month — twelve benches for a community centre, made to a real specification with a real deadline. The difference between practice work and a job somebody is waiting for is visible in how they worked.
Eight placements confirmed with local workshops for the cohort finishing in February.
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Nine children returned to formal schooling this term after accompaniment through the day centre. Two of them had been out of school for more than three years, and getting a place for a child that far out of the system takes as much work with the school as with the child.
Outreach contacts are up in Roche Bois and down in Plaine Verte. We do not yet know whether that is movement or attrition, and we are looking into it.
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The school year started on time for all 260 children, and for the first time nobody was waiting on materials in week one. The uniform distribution moved to December precisely so that would stop happening.
After-school tutoring is now running in six centres. We need four more volunteer tutors for the Port Louis and Bambous sessions — evenings, two hours, no teaching qualification required.
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Twenty-two households completed this quarter — fourteen roof repairs, five sanitary blocks and three structural jobs. Two of the roof cases had been on the regional centre’s list for over a year waiting on funding.
The waiting list currently stands at 63 households. We are prioritising the cases with young children or an elderly resident.
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Six new peer supporters finished their training last week — four of them are people we accompanied through their own first year, which is exactly how this is meant to work.
Retention in care at twelve months for the accompanied group is holding above 90 per cent. We will publish the full-year figures once the cohort closes.
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The mobile unit completed its 100th stop this month. Across the last quarter that is 1,340 tests, and — the number that matters — 96 per cent of reactive results were linked to care within seven days.
The Thursday evening stop has consistently the highest turnout of any slot we run, which tells us something about who cannot get to a clinic during working hours.
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The quarterly lagoon clean-up removed 1.1 tonnes from the Blue Bay shoreline and the wetland edge. As always, the largest single category by count was plastic bottles and by weight was construction debris.
Next clean-up is in eight weeks. Groups of ten or more, please register in advance so we can size the boats.
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Forty-one volunteers on Saturday, and 3,800 propagules in the ground across two sections of the fringe. Thank you to everyone who stood in the mud for six hours.
Survival check on the first section planted last quarter came back at 78 per cent, which is well ahead of what we budgeted for. The losses cluster in one channel where the current is stronger than the survey suggested — we are replanting that stretch with taller stock rather than propagules.
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Eleven of the eighteen schools have now finished their snorkel day. Watching a class that was nervous about putting its face in the water spend forty minutes counting fish is the whole programme in one afternoon.
Remaining seven schools are booked before the end of term, weather permitting.
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Second-quarter survey is complete across all twelve stations. Coral cover is holding at the northern stations; the two stations closest to the river mouth show the turbidity spike we see every year after heavy rain, and we will know by the next survey whether it cleared as usual.
The dataset is updated and open. If you work on this coast and want the raw numbers rather than the summary, ask us — that is what it is for.
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Two hundred and forty students came through the island education programme this term, from eleven schools across four districts. The reptile identification session is still the one they remember — several groups arrived already able to name the Telfair’s skink.
Teacher packs for the new term are ready, and we can take bookings for the next quarter.
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Early season count: 31 active cavities located so far, 19 of them with confirmed clutches. Two cavities near the ridge were taken over by introduced birds before the pair could lay, and both have been fitted with the modified entrance plates that worked last season.
The wet start has slowed access to the upper sites, so the second survey sweep moves to the following fortnight.
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