The
lovely Graça Sitoe was the first female graduate of ALG’s Uni
Scholarship programme. In 2015 she graduated in Administration &
Management and sent us news on her happier life this week.
Graça
was a teacher at the SVP school in Chokwe and in 2012 asked ALG to support her
studies at the University of Chokwe. She dreamed of graduating since she was
young but was held back by the efforts of supporting a large household on her
own. Now she is working in the public secondary school of Manjangue where she
holds the important role of Head of School Office. Our team went to visit her
in the new office where we were warmly greeted by her colleagues Arlindo Cossa
and Emilio Langa and school headmistress Ana Jesus. Graca misses her child
students and the joy of the classroom but her life is so much better. She is
busy every day with her new responsibilities in school accountancy and payroll
control. But best of all, is her salary increase: from 6.000 meticais to 24.000
(c.£312) which let her offer a much better quality of life to her 4 children.
Women
disproportionately lack access to higher education in Mozambique with rates of
only 3.73% in 2011, and lags behind other
Sub-Saharan African countries in enrolment in STEM disciplines such as
sciences, technology, engineering and maths*. Graca is the living proof of
how a Little Gesture accelerates positive change and a huge source of pride for
ALG!
*from World
Bank 2015
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