PORDATA

Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation
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Our class has gone to the school auditorium to attend a conference on demography in Portugal. We were invited to this conference because half of the students attend Geography and Demography is one of the components of Geography. 

This conference was presented by Maria João Valente Rosa, a demographer and professor in Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She also directs the Project PORDATA - Foundation Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

The conference was based on the presentation of graphs from the 2011 census. With these charts we can observe, discuss, make comparisons and draw conclusions.

For me, this conference was very helpful because I've been thinking in following this career in the future and I realized how the work of Pordata is quite helpful in our society.

Mariana Guerreiro

Nelson Mandela 1918-2013

QUOTES

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” 

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” 

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” 

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” 

“Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.” 

 “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.”