Founded in 2018, Tagaraga – Mercy Ministries Mozambique e.V. is a German
charitable organization, which supports the work of Dr. med. Sina Scherf in Mozambique for developing aid, healthcare, and educational
projects. Our Christian faith is the foundation and motivation for
everything we do. To achieve sustainable and all-encompassing aid for the
local people, we regard the invitation to know Jesus Christ and experience God’s
supernatural ways as inseparable from all the practical and medical aid.

Tagaraga means Mercy in the Carungo language. The people
of Carungo live in the Inhassunge district situated in the Zambezi province of Mozambique. A small tributary of the Zambezi river separates Inhassunge from
the provincial capital city Quelimane which makes Inhassunge district an „island“. It is inhabited by an estimated amount of 100,000 people today.

Having grown up in Quelimane, a young man grew to love this people – a people he had been warned about in his youth… a people labeled as witches and worthless beings. Thanks to missionaries who thoroughly influenced the life of this young man, he gave his life to Christ and acquired a heart for Missions.

Reminded one day during a biblical lesson, of the people of Carungo, he felt God moving his heart through the Bible verse in the book of Acts, chapter 10, verse 15; “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.” Back then, it became very clear to the 21-year-old Mozambican that God had not forgotten the people of Carungo and he had to go to them to tell them that.

This man’s name is Justino. He has lived with the people of Carungo on Inhassunge for over a decade as a missionary and a friend. Today he leads a missionary base started by Youth with a Mission (Jovens com uma Missao - JOCUM) in Quelimane and that is where the story of Tagaraga begins…