MOZAMBIQUE INSTITUTE 4. 9 OCTOBER 1964
b) films from both the government services and international information services, as well as
special films brought in by the Mozambique Institute from educational film companies;
c) special tape programs created for international
distribution by institutions throughout the
world;
d) lectures of special interest to Mozambicans in
the history, geograpny, politics and society •
of Mozambique.
Programming is always open to suggestion, and should an organization or person have an idea to offer, it v/ould be more than
welcome.
Prom the foregoing, it can be seen that the essential plan of
the secondary school program of the Mozambique Institute is twofold:
1) to give the educationally deprived student
constant and thorough academic training to
bring him to a level at which he can follow
successfully a secondary school program;  and,
2) to enrich his knowledge of the world and himself, so that he can conduct himself v/ith
reason in a modern environment.
LITERaCY TRAINING
Although the original plans for the Mozambique Institute included neither a literacy nor primary program, experience in East
Africa has taught the need for such training.
Since Mozambique has a literacy rate of 5$,. the largest number
of Mozambican refugees who leave their country are almost totally
illiterate.  It is the hope of the Mozambique Institute that every
refugee who is capable will learn to read, and if possible, to write.
A literacy program already has been started at the Bagamoyo Camp,
and the results are surprisingly good.  However, the course is not
regular, and the teachers are usually undertrained.  There is also
a total lack of educational material for training at this level.
Mrs. Mondlane has had discussions with the Laubach Literacy
Foundation, originally the "Each One, Teach One" program, and has
arranged for such a teaching method to be used among the Mozambican
refugees.  This is a program for which we have every expectation of
success.
In addition, a book has been written especially for newly-
literate Mozambicans based on methods used in literacy programs in
Cuba and Algeria.  The text is being submitted to the Laubach
Literacy Foundation for suggested improvements, but while such improvements, if any, are being made, the Mozambique Institute is
making stencilled copies of these books for experimental use.  They
will be finished before the end of October and put to immediate use.
The Institute has always supplied working materials, but with an
improved method of teaching,the program should go much more quickly.
The tutors for the secondary program v/ill help to organize the
teaching of illiterates when the texts and method are received.