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- Title
The Mozambican Institute and the Social State within FRELIMO.
- Authors
COSTA, Catarina Antunes
- Abstract
The Mozambican Institute was the organization that, under the formal cloak of independent foundation for humanitarian aid, allowed the Mozambican liberation movement to respond to the most basic needs of Mozambicans under its responsibility. The true welfare state that FRELIMO, thanks to the work of the Institute, could implement during the liberation struggle has allowed both refugees in Tanzania and the populations living in the areas gradually liberated in Mozambique to have a system of social protection that guaranteed them the minimum services in the areas of education and health, establishing schools, dispensaries and a hospital that responded to the needs of a population that, according to data of the Front itself, was one million two hundred thousand beneficiaries dispersed over an area of more than 250,000 km2, only in the liberated areas. All this work, besides granting immediate aid in the humanitarian and development field, allowed finding strategies that could be applied in an Independent Mozambique, aiming at the emergence of a new Nation, based on the presupposition of a new egalitarian and mentally decolonized society. The Mozambican Institute not only allowed FRELIMO to have access to international funds granted by Countries and some development and humanitarian aid organizations in Western Europe and North America that could not openly support a military organization presented by Portugal as terrorist, and also enabled the creation of true international networks of sympathy and activism towards the Mozambican cause.
- Subjects
FRELIMO; CIVIL rights movements; HUMANITARIAN assistance
- Publication
E-Journal of Portuguese History, 2019, Vol 17, Issue 2, p369
- ISSN
1645-6432
- Publication type
Abstract