A Mudança III

This edition's letter  comes from a boy in eleventh grade. He had some particularly insightful observations about how things work and what needs changing and how to do it. If he had stopped after the first sentence and written nothing more I would have been please with his essay all the same.

This young man hits on a variety of topics, and even manages to squeeze in his Christmas list, so bonus points for sneakiness. This is the change that he wants to see:

      As for my country, the change depends on us ourselves. The government of Mozambique, on the subject of education, has to decide, when a student finishes school and job training, that the student has a right to work. Some of them bribe for spots and steal it over those who have education and training. Having finished with studies, the government is responsible for each of them to fill a vacancy. As it is now, the government thinks that they are capable of making a living, not realizing that there are no opportunity that exist. Therefore, I would like to see all of this change, starting with the corruption.

      It is very normal for a student today to be intelligent and smart, have good grades, but the teacher wants that student's money and will decrease his grade if he doesn't get it. At the same time, students that don't know anything are passing because they have given the teacher a bribe. I would like to see this end.

      As for here at Evanjafrica, there are a few things I would like to see change. I would like to find a place (perhaps a library) that would have different types of books and resources and put up a schedule for us to have access to more information. This will also help with the ability to read. Here we could also have a place for several computers to help us with our studies.

      I would like [for us to have a TV and have] a staff member in charge of controlling a TV for us. Turning it on when there is news or telejournals, and soccer, because this would help us also to know what is happening in our country and in other countries. At the end of the program, the staff member responsible for the TV would turn it off and put it away.

      We also have people with problems of being lazy and arriving late. They are also slow to arrive when they are called to a certain place. For example, if you are called for dinner and the person is late in arriving it is because they don't value eating and they need to have a punishment. It is not because they don't like eating though, it is because they don't like obey. This is one thing that must change.

On the next installment, we'll hear from some of our construction workers who also did essays. Unfortunately, their ideas involve building a swimming pool.