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By Catherine Macnab
April 28, 2010
On Friday I head north to Cabo Delgado, the northern coastal province of Mozambique. My few days of acclimatizing to the sounds of Portuguese in Maputo will be tested when discussions have to be translated three-ways into the local language.
After a night in Pemba, the provincial capital, I’ll travel overland 500 [...]

By Catherine Macnab, CODE Program Manager
After four days in the Mozambican capital of Maputo, discussing technical aspects of the program with Progresso staff, I looked forward to visiting my first rural school in the northern province of Niassa. 
After an hour or so driving along a dirt road, passing small villages, we arrived at Capunda.
As we [...]

CODE’s partner in Mozambique, Associação Progresso, has been recognized nationally and internationally for its work in nurturing the development of a literate environment in Cabo Delgado and Niassa – the country’s two Northern provinces.
In a recent trip to Maputo to discuss and develop the second phase of a six year bilateral project funded by CIDA, [...]

As a program manager for CODE I work closely with partners overseas. But unlike my Ottawa-based colleagues, I work out of Brazil. This has often given me an interesting perspective, as the society I’m surrounded by is still struggling to become fully literate itself.
 
I recently had the chance to visit the Sao Paulo International Book [...]