2025
I, António Mangole António Bobo, 20 years old, student of the General Medicine Course.
Firstly, thank all members of the Doctors For Mozambique Foundation and APESMO especially Drs. Gitta and DR. Harry. I am really grateful to have received the scholarship for the Medicine Course. Your support encourages my continued commitment to achieving my goals. Secondly, I will describe the course of the year 2024 in which I was attending the Propaedeutics year.
At the social level. The year 2024 was a very different year compared to previous years. I say that in terms of living close and/or far from family. Never before had he spent a significant amount of time away from his family, which sometimes meant I spent every moment thinking of them. It was not easy to adapt to Beira, a very busy city, unlike what I lived in before.
At the academic level. The Propaedeutics year was a year of intense studies, which I found to be difficult at first, but as time went by I adapted, reducing the difficulties and managing to move to the next year.
Finally. I would like to say that the work done by DFM and APESMO is being felt in almost all of Mozambique and appeal to them to continue being what they are in order to help students in need who have magnificent abilities but who are unable to continue with their studies. My congratulations to all members of DFM and APESMO.
Antonio Bobo.
2024
I, António Mangole António Bobo, born on 9 December 2004, natural from Machanga, Sofala province, son of António Bobo and Deolinda Ibraimo.
My parents had six children in total, being three men and women as well and one of them died in her eight months of life, wich is the second from birth.
I come from a family that is not good financially, my father worked for a while in South África, the service did not go ahead because he was ill for a few months so much so that he lost his job and is currently unemployed. My mother pays the family’s agricultural production during the rain season and salt extration for exchange with other products during the dry season.
My parents, despite having low education and financial levels, maneged and continue to send their children to study. Until then, my two older brothers graduated in education as primary school teachers and the other two younger sisters, one is in elementary school and the other is in primary school to school level.
My school level has been good and it should be noted that from the 6th grade onwards it was the school manegement who paid for my school supplies, being one of the highights every year. In 2022, when I was in 11th grade, the middle of the first quarter, I participated in a mathematics olympics competition where I qualified from the school phase to the CPLP international phase which took place in Maputo and in this same international phase I was placed third and that was how I performed until finished 12th grade.
Having already completed 12th grade, my family decided to place me in a teacher training institute like my two older brothers and this was not my dream, until the school proposed that I apply for a scholarship go study medicine in Nazaré made available DFM ( Doctors For Mozambique). I went there, I competed there and I secceeded and I was one of those who qualified. At this moment, next to me and my family there is immense happiness and total gratitude.
My greetings go to all members of the DFM and Apesmo Association.