Press information

All the testimonies are available in English and Portuguese and can be viewed online at www.panos.org.uk/livingwithpoverty . The testimonies can be reproduced as extracts or in full for free but please credit Panos London and send an email letting us know to media@panos.org.uk

For more information please contact Keren Ghitis, keren.ghitis@panos.org.uk, tel +44 (0)20 7239 7629.

The testimonies collection was coordinated by Mozambican NGO, the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA). For more information on their work please contact Alfredo Libombo, Executive Director, libombo@misa.org.mz , Cell: +258 82 32 00 770, Tel: +258 21 30 28 33, www.misa.org.mz
Notes to editors

The testimonies were gathered in two sites: Marracuene, just north of Maputo, and Mabalane, 200 kilometres from the capital, on the Limpopo River.

The Mozambican testimonies were gathered as part of a wider project on the role of media and communication in poverty reduction - http://www.panos.org.uk/?lid=284 - funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) http://www.sdc.admin.ch

Mozambican testimonies form part of the Living with poverty collection of testimonies, which also explore people's experiences of poverty from Kenya, Pakistan and Zambia.

An opinion article exploring the emotional and social impacts of poverty revealed by the Living with poverty collection and written by Olivia Bennett, founder of Panos London's Oral Testimony Programme, is available for editors to reproduce for free – www.panos.org.uk/comment
About oral testimony

Oral testimonies are vivid, personal accounts that draw on a person's direct memories and experiences. Panos London's oral testimonies are valued by all sorts of people and used for a variety of purposes, including teaching and student research, community and development work, journalism and creative media, and personal use.

Panos London is part of a global not-for-profit network that promotes the participation of poor and marginalised people in international development debates through media and communication projects. www.panos.org.uk