Departing Dar es Salaam in Tanzania during the afternoon on a Sunday gave us a nice view from the air over this important harbor city. The international flight to the much smaller city of Pemba in the north-east of neighboring Mozambique took an hour. A few shots upon arrival...
Our team of four from Seneca consists here of the two business professors Nancy and Azhar, Quinn (the project manager) and myself. We also have a gender specialist who works under contract with CICan and already lives in Mozambique for more than 20 years (Edda is from Belgium). On Thursday and Friday we also have a communication expert from Mozambique in the team. Fernando worked many years in the mining industry and part of his career he worked for a Canadian company. He will do a few parts of the program about communication topics best to be discussed among the Mozambicans. Our Canadian team sets a theoretical framework during the first three days and then Fernando brings further reflection with the local business and education context.We have 24 participants from 5 technical institutions in the north of Mozambique. The training workshop this time has a focus on "communication" and we are hosted by one of the schools in Pemba.
The General Director of the school in Pemba welcomed us this morning during the first day of the workshop together with a representative of the provincial Ministry of Education of Cabo Delgado, who also spoke a few words of welcome and encouragement.
Nancy started the workshop with a number of interactive introductions on the topic of how we communicate in the workplace (in the background Azhar). Nancy was born, raised and educated in Canada, but her parents came from Portugal to Canada and she speaks fluent Portuguese. Azhar grew up in South Africa and came to Canada 16 years ago.
The Seneca team stays in a nice small hotel just outside of town on the ocean. After the days of workshop delivery they prepare for the next day in a nice relaxed setting. It is hard work (especially because the delivery is all in Portuguese with translation for the parts Azhar leads), but the setting is beautiful. A few pics from the hotel to close off this posting.
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