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Fifth Maranatha-built School to Open
The fifth Seventh-day Adventist school built by Maranatha in Mozambique is set to open Aug. 1. The Beira College will offer advanced education for Adventist students in Mozambique.
With a prolonged civil war that lasted until the mid 1990s, the educational opportunities in Mozambique have been very dim for decades.
“Finally the country is reorganized and democratized [and is] moving forward, and it was time to fulfill a dream and a need that was already overdue. But how to do it? Maranatha captured the vision and came to help us to fulfill this dream,” says Gilberto Carlos Araujo, vice president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Southern Africa-Indian Ocean region.
He says, “Church leaders are recovering their self-esteem that they have lost, and they now believe that they can look to the future with hope.”
In a country where children rarely stay in school beyond second grade and four out of five women and one of out three men cannot read or write, this is good news, he says.
Maranatha built their first Education and Evangelism Center (EEC) in Mozambique in Liberdade, a suburb of Maputo, the capital city of Mozambique, in 2008. The Mahotas EEC is also located in the suburbs of Maputo, while the Beira and Chimoio EECs are hundreds of miles to the north.
“The schools are blessing so many in Mozambique—both students in schools and church members and their guests in seminars, special weekend programs, and weekly church services,” says Susan Woods, Maranatha employee in Africa.
Maranatha’s work in Mozambique also includes hundreds of churches and fresh water wells since the organization became involved in the country in 2007.
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