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Mozambique Institute
(Instituto Mopambicano)
Institute
(Inst:
P. 0. Box 20773
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania, East Africa
1 September 1965
REPORT
The Mozambique Institute has just celebrated the second anniversary of its early beginnings, and this seems an apropriate
occasion for making a report on recent developments in our programmes.
Since our last report, the Mozambique Institute has received
a very generous grant from the Swedish Agency for International
Assistance.  These funds were designated for the general educational
purposes of the Institute, and for the purchase of a new building
which has been equipped and opened as a hostel for the girl students
of the Mozambique Institute.  So for the first time the Mozambique
Institute is able to house all of its students, and to unite the
student body in a healthy, organised programme suited to their best
interests.  The grant was presented to the Institute by Mr. Knut
Granstedt, Charge d'Affaires of Sweden in Dar es Salaam, at a
ceremony at the Institute on May 15, and was accepted by the Honourable Mr. Eliufoo, Minister of Education in the Tanzania Government
and Honourary Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Mozambique
Institute.
Other news of major interest since our last report is the
establishment of a full medical programme at the Mozambique Institute.  With the financial support of a group of religious organisations, we have been able to add to our staff Dr. Helder
Martins, a Mozambican doctor who received his medical degree in
Lisbon and has practiced for a number of years in North Africa.4
He is duely registered by the Tanzania Government to practice
Medicine.  Dr. Martins has set up a programme to provide medical
services to refugee students, and within a short time we hope to
be able to build a small, separate house on the Mozambique Institute
grounds for the medical programme, which will include a small laboratory for carrying out simple tests.  Dr, Martins works with a
young Mozambican medical assistant, and their services are available exclusively to refugees, including, of course, the Mozambique
Institute students and 'all of the students at the African-American
Institute refugee school regardless of nationality.  Dr. Martins
is also establishing an informal programme to train civilian nurses
aides who will work with refugees and with the civilian population
within Mozambique.
In order to describe the developments and changes in our
programmes over the past months, we will give a description of
each programme as it operates at present and our plans for the
immediate future.
IN DAR ES SALAAM
Since our last report, there has been a sizeable increase in
the number of students at the Mozambique Institute in Dar es Salaam.
At this moment, there are 92 students resident at the Mozambique
Institute hostels in Kurasini, and new arrivals are expected within
the next few days, but within this month, a number of students will
leave to go overseas on technical school scholarships.  However,
the arriving students vastly outnumber the departing students, and
the overall population of the Mozambique Institute is increasing
at a remarkable rate.