Today is the second post in our series of “The change I want to see”. As the kids turned in their essay, I was surprised at how not surprising their choice of topic was. About half of them chose to write about topics concerning school and the leadership of the country. A common complaint among people, especially here in the north.
Today we have two essays that come from two brothers. Not surprisingly, they are both very opinionated. One caveat is that I have trimmed down the letter and taken out quite a bit of content because if you voice your discontent with certain members of the government you are liable for libel. And it gets prosecuted quite a bit. Or rather not prosecuted, but maybe beaten during the middle of the night or assassinated quite a bit. Anyways, here's what they had to say:
Brother one; just completed grade 9.
I want to see a change in the corruption. I would like to see a change in teachers primarily. In my country, teachers want you to offer them money to pass a class. Even if you may be intelligent you have to offer money to the teachers to pass. In the case of girls who aren't intelligent, if you want to pass all she has to do is have sex with the teacher, but it a boy is not smart and doesn't have money he will immediately fail the class.
Also I would like to change the principal of my high school because when the government sends money to pay the utilities like water and electricity he takes the money for himself instead of paying these things and immediately goes out drinking and it harms the students. They go weeks without water to drink and those that study at night go weeks without lessons because of the electricity.
Ultimately I would like if the doctors and nurses could change. In my country when a patient appears at the hospital for an emergency they don't attend them immediately because they are not present or they wait for the patient to die so they can rob them before sending them to the morgue.
Brother two; just completed grade 11. Also very opinionated.
About the change that I want to see: I want to see a change in corruption, bribes, lies, racism and greed here in Africa but foremost in the country of Mozambique.
I, being Mozambican, get very sad with this way of corruption in my country because it is corruption that is inviting criminals and thieves from the midst of our people. But all of this is because of the government that doesn't know how to run or lead its own people. They invite corruption by robbing the money of the people and later those same people start to imitate this manner because they see it happening with their leaders. They will rob cell phones, power lines, anything.
Also I would like if we could end this way of the bribe. because with bribes the people are becoming stupid, illiterate, and poorly educated because they have become accustomed to a life of giving money to teachers in order to pass a class without knowing anything. Later, it is a great harm to the people to grow up knowing nothing. This life is full of prejudice and for this it must change.
Another cause is racism and greed. In our country there is great value in being the son or daughter of somebody important. For example, presidents, ministers, governors, wealthy foreigners, etc. This choice of preference is something very ugly and sad because all of us are equal without discrimination of color or race or religion and we all have the same rights. The greed is a thing that is very ugly and destroys the life of of people across the world.
Our country is changing, but it is going backwards. I think it will take the work of all Mozambicans to change our country for the better. It is this that I have to say about the change I want to see.
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