SIFA
Named for a grandmother. Carried by her lineage.
A community rooted in Mozambican soil — healing land, people, and future through ancestral wisdom, gentle innovation, and the belief that we are always guided.
"Trust your path. Treat others and the world the way you wish to be treated. The rest will be guided."
— Founder of Sifa
Our Mission
Sifa — a name carried across generations. Named for a grandmother who left this world before she and her grandchildren could grow into the depth of each other's knowing. She passed when her daughter was still young. But she always said she was near — and so was her father before her — guiding, holding, whispering in the spaces between certainty and trust.
Sifa was born from that belief: that those who leave do not leave entirely. That intuition is lineage. That the wisdom of those who came before lives in how we treat the land, each other, and the quiet voice inside us that knows the way — if we are gentle enough to listen.
We are neutral. No government entity benefits from our funds unethically. Every resource flows directly to the land and its people. Receptive, kind, gentle, and innovative — that is who we are.
An Auction for Mozambique
How a fourteen-year-old, living far from home, turned helplessness into €7,000 for the people of Mozambique.
Angelina Zweemer & auctioneer Mark Smit · Kasteel Eerde · Photo: Eerde IBS
In May 2021, from the tapestry hall of Kasteel Eerde in Ommen, the Netherlands, an online auction was held for Artsen zonder Grenzen — Médecins Sans Frontières — in Mozambique. It was organised by Angelina Zweemer, then a fourteen-year-old student at the Eerde International Boarding School. She had lived in Mozambique until two years before, and her parents still lived there.
The situation in her country weighed on her. The north of Mozambique had seen years of conflict, and repeated cyclones had left thousands homeless; around 700,000 people had been displaced. Living in Europe while things went badly in Mozambique, she felt angsty — restless, helpless, unable to simply stand by. So she turned to what she knew: art, and the will to act.
The auction raised over €7,000, donated in full to MSF's emergency teams receiving refugees in Mueda, Nangade and Montepuez.
Art of every kind
All sorts of art went under the hammer — paintings by Angelina herself, works by primary and older students, and pieces by established artists. The painter Mark Mulders was kind enough to donate several of his gorgeous works. Local gallery owners and craftspeople from Ommen and beyond contributed too, alongside cushions, novels, a folding chair from the school and a glass owl — around twenty items in all.
A community around her
Art dealer Mark Smit, housed in Ommen's former town hall, led the auction, which was broadcast live via Zoom on the evening of 26 May 2021. It was covered by the local news channel Vechtdal and written up by De Ommenaar. The whole effort was encouraged by her Dutch teacher at the time — a real go-getter who inspired her to keep going, to stop at nothing, and to think far beyond what was previously thought to be required.
MSF · Medical humanitarian aid in Mozambique
MSF · Medical humanitarian aid in Mozambique
From a seed at fourteen to Sifa's Anjos at twenty
Years later, now twenty, that auction has grown into Sifa's Anjos — inspired by her agricultural, political, creative and nature-and-spiritual interests. What began as a fourteen-year-old's refusal to look away has become a vision for how life itself might be healed.
The Magic of Life
Angelina loves the magic of life, and believes it can heal our idea and perception of what it means to live. She imagines a return to feeding from food forests, to harvested water purified and cleansed, and to electricity drawn from lightning and stored for use. She speaks of highly mineralized water, recycled from the purification of crystals and rocks, used for energetic healing and light beaming — of technology that keeps a crystal always emitting, light reflected endlessly from within. Endless reflections, she says, mean an endless light source: universal, strong, cheap and sustainable enough for eternal use. With Sifa's Anjos, she wants to live in a world where some things no longer always have to be lost — endless light, endless water, endless food.
Seed Sovereignty & Living Soil
Keeping the old generations of seed is important to her — especially when those seeds already bear the nutrients our bodies need, simply by wanting to reproduce. She pictures a world where people no longer chase youth or spend millions on makeup, because the soil itself produces fruits that are antioxidant-rich, full of vitamin C and vitamin E, untouched and untempered. Symbiosis, she reminds us, is everywhere. She asks why we accept sewage, and why some say our dung can fertilize soil while others call it poisonous — perhaps because what we put into our bodies is poisonous. She asks where compostable material goes, whether it returns to the fields rather than being replaced with fabricated chemical fertilizers, and why plastic bags replaced durable ones. The real problem, she notes, is a lack mindset — the fear that sharing means losing.
Regenerating the Impossible
With Sifa's Anjos, the focus is on changing how production is seen, and on highlighting symbiosis across systems — in cities, in rural areas, and even in deserts. With a growing population, deserts can become homes through regeneration programs built around desert-hardy crops and ancient technology, like the Ancient Inca Laboratory in Peru, where temperature fluctuations are explored across different ring levels. She welcomes every kind of creative: gardeners, architectural students, construction workers — all engineering with natural materials and with the natural happenings of a landscape.
Ancient Knowledge Within
She is fascinated by structures in history built with technology that seems to go far beyond the knowledge of their time. What if that knowledge is still within us, she wonders, simply never explored because of the way society and industry developed — when people stopped carving from rock and wood, stopped painting mosaics on ceilings, stopped raising pillars of limestone. Did we simply get lazy, moving from slavery to jobs to creating AI to do our work for us? She calls herself a hypocrite to that very statement, admitting she uses Base44 as a companion on her team — assisting where she is less knowledgeable, helping with time management as she balances school, physical works of art, and a life lived beyond the screen.
Our Programs
Six pillars of sustainable transformation
Smallholder Farming
Equipping rural farmers with land, equipment, seeds, and traditional management skills — maize, cassava, legumes, leafy greens, tomatoes, and medicinal herbs.
Seed Sovereignty
Producing and distributing high-quality heirloom seeds across Mozambique and beyond — building continental agricultural independence.
Plant Medicine & Homeopathy
Integrating Mozambican traditional medicine with plant-based homeopathic practices for whole-body health: physical, chemical, spiritual, and mental.
Natural Protection Research
Researching and producing natural insecticides, pesticides, mosquito repellents using venom science (snake, scorpion, spider, bee), fungi, and plant solutions.
Water & Energy Systems
Phytoremediation water purification, silver-based filtration, and sustainable solar electricity — safe and community-owned infrastructure.
Education & Youth
Education centers for volunteers' children, teaching sustainability, land stewardship, and respect for nature as a living curriculum.
Research & Innovation
Science rooted in the soil
"Working with nature's own chemistry to protect her."
Venom-Based Bioprotectants
Local research centers study snake, scorpion, spider, and bee venoms to create organic plant protection solutions.
Mycological Solutions
Fungi-based treatments for agricultural pest and disease management across South-East Africa.
Copper Rod Cultivation
Unique bed systems using copper rods to repel non-beneficial insects — a traditional-modern fusion method.
Hydroponics & Aquaponics
Controlled growing environments for year-round food security in resource-scarce contexts.
Phytoremediation
Using plants to purify water sources — restoring clean water access to rural communities without chemical dependency.
Community Research Fellows
Local students and indigenous practitioners are central to all research — not subjects, but co-investigators.
The Earth Also Sings
From the whisper of roots to the roar of thunder — all of creation speaks in frequency.
Liability
A song for the free. A love letter to the universe — to confidence, fertile ground, and a future that grows from within.
Bili
A journey into duality, depth, and the quiet power that lives beneath the surface of every living thing.
The Voice of the Land
Music is a way to connect with the land — its energies, its frequencies, its living intelligence. Plants themselves produce music: their electromagnetic waves, picked up and translated, reveal how they interact with their environment. They sing, just as we do. Just as animals sing. Just as thunder speaks, lightning flashes its rhythm, rain drums its ancient pattern, and sunlight sparks its silent magic.
Instruments of Dialogue
Music at Sifa Anjos is drawn from craftsmanship — inspired by traditional instruments of Mozambique and other regions. These instruments are not relics; they are alive, created and used to communicate with the land, to relay messages from the earth to the people and back again. Especially important in showing gratitude, universal love, peace, and deep-rooted healing.
Releasing What We Carry
Sifa Anjos knows the importance of expressing oneself. Keeping things bottled within every individual does not contribute positively to the catching and releasing of life. The ability to acknowledge one's feelings — to honour them, to learn from them, to love them — is a sacred act. We believe this could aid in restoring a population's faith in trusting, learning to understand, and communicating with Mother Gaia.
Healing Ancestral Wounds
For our earth is a living, breathing body. Music becomes medicine — for how a population deals with ancestral trauma and a country's wounds: the civil war, slavery, corruption. Sound carries what words cannot. Rhythm remembers what minds try to forget. Through music, Sifa Anjos holds space for collective healing, for grief to be witnessed, and for joy to be reclaimed.
"Our earth is a living, breathing body.
Music is how we remember that we are too."
— Sifa Anjos
The Sacred Gallery
Art as the seed of transformation
Commercialism shapes not only economies but the bodies that move through them — seeping into how we feel, how we express, what we make. Art holds the mirror. It absorbs those pressures and transforms them into protest, beauty, and questions that refuse easy answers. Sifa offers artists of every background a platform to take flight in the direction that sings to them most — through exhibitions and fundraisers that build real connections. Each work shared becomes a seed: individual expressions rippling outward, sparking a butterfly effect of thought that nurtures the safety to reimagine, together.
Original artwork funds Sifa. Each exhibition — free entry, open hearts — explores the symbiotic relationships between the inner world and outer reality. Dreams that became determination. Growth that became a movement.
Donations and artwork sales directly fund Sifa projects. Exhibitions travel globally.
Cyanotis cristata
Photography — Pemba
Sacred Gallery — Featured Painting
Rose
Mixed Media — Oil & Gold Leaf
A figure rests among blooms that refuse to stay still — pink, white, and the defiant yellow of something alive. Gold leaf runs through the plum darkness like lineage: the quiet inheritance that does not announce itself, yet catches the light.
The hand against the face is the gesture of one who listens inward — the same listening Sifa asks of the land. Beauty here is not decoration; it is the record of a person choosing to remain tender in a world that hardens.
"What grows in gold and shadow grows true — the flower and the face are the same prayer."
Photography
Floria Breur
Sacred Gallery — Featured Work
The Seed, The Dream & The Wild
A seed left in wild soil — forgotten by commerce, reclaimed by nature. What grows without interference grows true. Art, like land, asks only for honest hands.
Art holds the mirror. It absorbs the pressures of a consuming world and transforms them — into protest, into beauty, into questions that refuse easy answers. At Sifa, this tension is the canvas.
Through exhibitions and fundraisers, Sifa offers artists of every background a platform — not just to display, but to take flight in the direction that sings to them most.
"When we free the artist, we free the idea — and ideas, once released, do not return empty-handed."
Rose
Mixed Media — Oil & Gold Leaf
Cyanotis cristata
Photography — Pemba
The Climber
Photography — Pemba
The Pollinator
Photography — Pemba
On the Stem
Photography — Pemba
White Bloom
Photography — Pemba
Partners & Allies
Building coalitions for lasting change
Emergency Relief Partners
Neutral humanitarian organisations that provide emergency relief where Sifa builds the long-term stability that makes relief less needed over time.
Local Communities
Indigenous land stewards, traditional healers, and smallholder farmers — our most important partners.
Universities & Research Institutes
Local and international academics who co-develop solutions rooted in place.
Plant a Seed
100% of donations flow directly to projects — land, people, research, seeds. No bureaucratic leakage. No government diversion. Every seed planted is a prayer answered.
A living project
This website is a starting point — a place of awareness and a portfolio of plans, ideas, and vision. It will grow continuously, shaped by the people who believe in it. If you are an organisation, researcher, farmer, artist, or dreamer who sees alignment with what Sifa is building, we warmly encourage you to reach out. Partnerships are not just welcome — they are part of how this work becomes real.
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"Every village, a garden. Every garden, a sustainable future."