2023-05-04 01:10:45
There is a growing exodus, they say. Angolans flee in search of better living conditions, they say. Entire families leave the country due to the lack of decent living conditions and the queues at embassies and passport issuing posts are long…
The preferred Eldorado is Portugal, for linguistic reasons, however, what many consider a new opportunity can sometimes materialize in disappointment.
If we want to draw up a profile of the Angolan emigrant, we come across several typologies. There are children and young people who leave their parents’ home and go to live with relatives who already live there, in order to improve their studies; couples who choose to separate, leaving the husband to work in Angola and the wife and children residing in the country of destination; and those who sell everything and invest in a life abroad.
The new emigrants have degrees and held important positions in their companies. They argue that what they spend to provide a quality education for their children, added to the cost of food and the payment of water and electricity (from cisterns and generator), aggravated by hours in traffic, leave them with no way out, choosing to abandon the country.
However, when they arrive they do not carry out similar functions, nor do they earn what they previously earned, they rejoice in the security of predictability, but discover that the work is demanding, there is no one to do the housework, and that in a competitive market what sets us apart will certainly be our strength. But with so many doing so much, what does it mean to be different?
The option of living far from our country obliges us to insert ourselves into the new society, with the awareness that we have duties, responsibilities and contributions, and that our role is to cooperate for a symbiosis of cultures, not helping the stirs with various indignant that a boy responds to his aunt in a way considered by many to be disrespectful. Mateus is the result of the society in which he is inserted, where we can express our opinion from an early age, even if his family has the culture that the older element should not be confronted, even if he is wrong…
The reflection that I consider pertinent to share on this subject is not linked to a superfluous analysis of whether my fellow countrymen are right or wrong in leaving, and the reasons that lead them to do so. I think it would be more interesting to talk about another point of view, because amid complaints and whimpers about what is wrong here in Angola, the question that remains is: what do you do to change?
Being a contestant on a social network or they roar lunch will be important, but in times of entrepreneurship and economic diversification, what kind of transformation and influence do we do to seek change?
How many of us are organized into associations or cooperatives that can exert pressure to resolve professional issues? Who creates, on a voluntary basis, waste collection campaigns or sets up spaces for literacy training for disadvantaged children? Is there a real concern with the reduction of informal work, or is there even a way to avoid having to get out of the car to buy cold water on the side of the road?
What studies, debates or conferences, in addition to identifying the problems, present solutions with practical examples?
I don’t believe in the invention of the wheel, but in the applicability of good ideas to the real context. I believe in education as a factor of change and in unity as an engine of persuasion. And maybe if looking more at what unites us and what we can change together worked, we wouldn’t need to emigrate…
Critics will say, and what do you do? I answer humbly, I write with the expectation of awakening consciences.
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