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Graça Simbine Machel
was born on 17 October 1945 in Incadine
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(Mandlakaze), Gaza, Mozambique, two weeks after the death of her father. Raised by her mother and siblings, she received the invaluable gift of education, which she has passed on to other underprivileged children throughout the world.
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Luísa Dias
Diogo, was born in Mágoé
district, in the central province
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of Tete. She is the third of the
eight children of retired nurse
Luís João Diogo, and of housewife
Laura Atanásia Dias
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Eneas
da Conceição Comiche
Was born in Moma on 28
July 1939
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| Degree
in Economics from the Economics
Faculty of porto, Portugal, in 1969
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Abdul
Carimo Mahomed Issá
was born in Quelimane on 6 September
1954
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a law degree from the Law Faculty
of the Eduardo Mondlane University
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Arnaldo
Joaquim Lopes Pereira
was born in Mozambique on 20 November
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Eng. Lopes Pereira is a civil engineer
with over thirty years of valuable
and diverse experience
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FDC is a civic organization, with
no political party affiliation,
which seeks to join together the
forces of all sectors of society
in achieving an ideal of development,
democracy and social justice.
This Foundation arises from the
conviction that poverty is not
inevitable. It is the result of
a complex mechanism of marginalizing
and exploiting the poor; of feeble
publicity for scientific and technical
knowledge and appropriate technologies;
of a system of access to resources
which those social strata who
do not benefit from education
and involvement in the formal
institutions of society and the
economy find it hard to use. This
series of factors has a negative
impact on people's attitude to
nature and to life, and also prevents
them from using the resources
that are already available for
their own benefit in a sustainable
way. These structural and psychological
obstacles are the roots of the
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1990 the Community Development
Association (ADC) was set up,
with the aim of establishing the
human and legal conditions, and
the assets, for the emergence
of a Foundation. The initial experience
of the ADC showed that dependence
on foreign funding on the part
of Mozambican community development
agents, mainly non-governmental
organizations (NGOs), and grass-roots
community organizations (CBOs)
prevents Mozambicans themselves
from taking the prime responsibility
for priorities and for taking
decisions on improving the living
conditions of the poor. As a result,
the will arose to set up an institution
of Mozambican civil society with
the vocation of supporting local
initiatives through community
investment, and upgrading the
skills of the communities and
of the local stakeholders who
work with them. In 1994, the Community
Development Foundation (FDC) was
set up as the first institution
of its kind in Mozambique.
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