Once again a few days in Mozambique. This time to have our last STEM project activity. The Seneca team worked here during the past four years on capacity building among managers of the national technical colleges/institutes. This time we organized a small training conference around what we have done with our colleagues here (last year we had a 1st such conference in Tete - see under August 2018). The conference is hosted at a new "hotel escola" (hotel school) in Pemba in the north-east.
Our key-note speaker is Tom who a brilliant and pragmatic academic leader at the colleges in Canada and who also speaks Portuguese. Tom and I have been here now four times once a year. It is a true privilege to work with Tom. On the evening of our arrival in Pemba we had dinner with some of the colleagues here.
For fun I took a photo with the local newspaper of Fonthill (Pelham) to send to them to see if they place the photo. We are staying in the hotel school as the very first visitors; a total of 12 visitors filling 24 rooms they have (4 from Canada, 2 from Maputo and 6 from Tete, the other main city of our project and where we hosted our conference last year bringing 6 colleagues there from Pemba). The view from our hotel is over the ocean as well at some distance) and over the school's sports field.
The organizers of the hosting institution set up a special tent for the lunches and dinners for the roughly 50 participants. The first day went well. Two more days to go.
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