Background information and progress Page 9.
10 March 1965
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES aT REFUGEE CaMPS:
- BAGAMOYO CAMP
At present there are about 400 refugees at the camp located at
Bagamoyo.  These are men and boys only.  Arcanjo Faustinho is
the Mozambique Institute std^f member who visits and supervises
the educational programme at the camp,  ut first the problem existed of whicn subjects should be taught because:
1. The level of education varied among the people at
the camp;
2. The young boys who v/ere in need of primary education
were mixed in with illiterate adults;  and
3. There was an acute lack of teachers able to teach
primary school or give literacy training.
It was decided that the first need was for a primary school
syllabus that could be followed in any refugee camp where a
primary programme might be needed.  Ferraz, Palange and
Faustinho spent some weeks in organising this programme.  The
syllabus is based on the new Portuguese school system which
demands six years of primary schooling rather than the previous four.  Although the Portuguese within Mozambique do not
yet follow their own system, v/e have decided that six years is
certainly preferable to a mere four years of primary training,
and so our primary syllabus covers six year's of work.
Since it is impossible to provide primary school facilities for
the young boys in Dar es Salaam, it was suggested by the Mozambique Institute that boys needing primary education remain
at the refugee camps and that special facilities would be made
available to them for a full primary programme with a full-time
teacher.  The vast majority of the remaining refugees receive
instruction in reading, writing and some maths.
The problems of teaching at the Bagamoyo camp remain the lack
of teachers and sufficient text books.  When the books arrive
from Brazil we feel the problem will be partly solved.  However,
the division within the camp between the young boys who are
getting a full-time primary programme and the older population
who are getting only literacy training presents a problem of
jealousy and is likely to raise more problems in the future.
Unfortunately, there seems to be no alternative at the present
moment to keeping the young primary students at the camp.
Perhaps through discussion with the Education Committee of
FRELIMO, v/hich is responsible for the camp, some more suitable
solution can be found.  In this connexion, it would be helpful if teachers could be found among the refugees who would be
willing to assume the task of teaching and who are willing to
work closely with the Mozambique Institute.
- LINDI-MTWaRa CAMPS
With at least 10,000 refugees, men, women and children, living
in the Lindi-Mtwara area, something must be done to help v/ith
educational facilities.  The Mozambique Institute is trying to
obtain funds from refugee organisations to support an educational programme at these camps.
The camps have been visited by myself and Bernardo Ferraz to
discover what facilities, if any, are available for starting
an educational project.There are virtually no facilities available.  On the other hand, almost every one of these refugees
wishes to receive education of some kind.