This morning I was so focused on making sure I remembered my granola bar for breakfast that I forgot to get my lunch...so I had to go without eating today AND I get the privilege of not eating again tomorrow. (Oh Joy!)
So today I age a granola bar for breakfast and when I got home I ate some of my red beans and rice with a seasoned chicken breast that I thawed and cooked up. (cost of chicken $1.17) Half I ate tonight and half I will save for tomorrow.
Mozambique is a country on the southern coast of East Africa just above South Africa. Like most of Africa, Mozambique endured several centuries of colonialism. By the early 1500s, Portugal began building fortified cities and ports on the coastline and began exerting influence over the rest of the territory that would one day become Mozambique.
By 1975, the independence movement was sufficient and the independent country of Mozambique was formed. The national language is Portuguese. The majority of the people are Christian but a sizable portion of the population are Muslim.
Since 2000, Mozambique has been the fastest growing economy in the world but the gap between the rich and the poor has been growing even more. Over 10% of the population between the ages of 19-49 is HIV positive and the infant mortality rate is 100 per 1000 live births. With 74.7% of the population that lives on a buck twenty five or less, the poverty in this nation is crushing and exacerbated by the fact that the growing economy is leaving many behind. In 2005 over one million school age children were not enrolled in schools, mostly in the poor, rural areas, and many teachers were still unqualified to teach. With these severe challenges and lack of basic needs, the future for the poor in Mozambique does not look to improve much in the coming years.
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