E a luta ainda continua...excerpt

The Brazilian journalist Mirella Domenich returns in late 2004 to Mozambique, a country where she has previously worked as a volunteer. A country, that alike Brazil, was also colonized by the Portuguese, sharing many cultural similarities. While the third general elections are being prepared, she is traveling throughout the country. The candidates promise change even though the country is not economically self-sustainable: 60% of the State budget is provided by foreign donors. And these donors yet proclaim that the elections could be rigged. Domenich has many doubts on her mind. In how far does the outcome of the elections actually contribute anything towards the ones mostly in need? She visits the orphaned children with whom she has worked with before in Beira and joins three teenagers to visit the offices of the main political parties. There she encounters another disclosure. And the struggle still continues...

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Education

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• Mozambique
• elections
• democracy
• youth
• minibusmedia