2025
Cordials Greetings to all members of the DFM and Apesmo Board
I am Eva Alberto Guidione , 20 years, attending the first year of general medicine at the Faculty of Health Sciences UCM. My year 2024 was marked by immense social and academic difficulties. First, I mean that academically was challenging for many reasons: the first challenge was the number students who attended the propaedeutic year that had increased pressure on studies and students , the second was the reduction of study time, being limited in 3 days a week to a year when classes used to be every day of the week, and lastly, I had some health problems (I had visual problems that made it difficult to read ). Facing all these difficulties, I had some recurrences but thank God I managed to pass the year.
Socially, due to political tensions in our country, the cost of living here in Mozambique has increased exponentially, and there is an increase in the cost of basic needs and to have money for copies and other everyday needs. I also faced some personal problems because my father has had health problems and somehow has shaken me and makes it difficult to read or concentrate.
I want, through this, to thank the whole family DfM/Apesmo, if it were not for your support probably I would not be here that year witnessing once again the goodness of God and proving once again that God has a purpose For each of us in this life. I also want to thank Dr. Gitta and Dr. Harry, for the support and confidence they put in me every day; I feel welcomed by everyone in this wonderful family.
2024
Greetings to all members of the Doctors for Mozambique foundation
I am Eva Alberto Guidione, born in Chimoio, Daughter of Alberto Guidione and Flora António. I have 5 maternal brothers and 10 paternal brothers, my father had 6 wives, currently there are 3.
My mother passed away when I was 6 years old in 2012, I stayed with my maternal sisters, they didn’t work, they had to stop studying to take care of me, we lived in precarious situations, we were taken in by a Catholic orphan center, “ Santo António”, the center paid for school supplies, clothes, food and I lived in the center, that was when I was in third grade until fifth grade, in fifth grade my father decided to look for me, I didn’t know I had a father, because my mother had told me that he died (because he refused the pregnancy), but I ended up getting used to him, we don’t have much conversation. He took me to live with my aunt in 2016, she ended up passing away in 2017, he took me I moved to live with my paternal brother in Mossurize, I did seventh grade there at the 1st and 2nd grade primary school in Goi-goi headquarters. I attended eighth grade in Dombe at Divina Providência secondary school in Dombe, I lived at our boarding school. Madam Queen of the World, my father paid for my stay there, from 2019 onwards my father started to get sick and was unable to pay for my studies because I had to take care of his health, I started doing small businesses within the boarding school to support my studies, I received help but it didn’t cover everything, it was under these conditions that I managed to finish twelfth grade in 2022, thank God, my performance at school was very good.
In 2023 I was unable to graduate due to lack of conditions; The scholarship opportunity came to me, I embraced it and managed to admit, I want to make this opportunity worth it.
I want to thank the Doctors for Mozambique foundation and the APESMO association for the opportunity they gave me.