Educação formal e estratégias de sobrevivência no distrito de Matutuine

Abstract

This work seeks to contribute to the understanding of the relationship between the type and level of education of the population and the survival and/or daily livelihood strategies of households in the district of Matutuine. After an exploratory reading and bibliographic review, the project was prepared accompanied by an interview guide that was applied in the data collection, which allowed us to verify, on the one hand, that, despite a large increase in the number of schools and the approval rates, that in the district, most of the population in Matutuine district does not have 6th grade. In Matutuine district only general secondary schools up to grade 10 operate, and most students who complete this level are then integrated into Education, public services, health and as servants in tourist facilities, the only formal employment sector that offers possibilities of hiring in the district. Most of the population in the district of Matutuine has agriculture, fishing and livestock as their main activity for their daily livelihood. However, due to low agricultural production, resulting from successive years of civil war, floods and droughts accompanied by drought, led to the adoption of other strategies for their survival, such as cutting reeds, manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, production and sale of charcoal, cutting and selling sugarcane informal trade, informal and domestic services, seasonal jobs, remittances, beekeeping, xipago-pago and gain-gain. HIV/AIDS has most affected border administrative posts, immigrant households to the Republic of South Africa and Swaziland, who, on their return home, infect their partners. Most of those infected in the district are young women and young adults. This situation may in the future have serious impacts on families that depend on immigrants' remittances, particularly in education.(NOSSA TRADUÇÁO)