Achimo Camal – “I feel accomplished”

He who comes out of his own does not degenerate. Achimo Camal’s career confirms it. The son of a former employee of Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique, he followed in his father’s footsteps. But if it is true that his father’s inspiration was central, it is no less true that a childhood spent in the Aeroporto neighborhood with the permanent presence of airplanes also seemed to shape the future. “We always saw planes passing by. And we were curious to go up.”

In 1990, after training, he joined LAM as a Stopover Programmer, responsible for managing the crews that must be on board. “It was a privilege to work on what I always wanted to do”, he confesses. And more than satisfying his curiosity, it helped make air travel possible for thousands of passengers over the decades of service.

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With more than thirty years of career, he does not allow himself to be accommodated by time. He knows that aviation is an area in constant change and daily learning continues to be the biggest challenge. “We must always be studying, aviation is always developing”.

That must be why, more than 20 years later as a programmer, he would become an operations officer. But he didn’t do it without leaving what he calls a legacy. There is a new generation of programmers that have passed through his hands. “I am proud to know that I contributed to the formation of new staff”.

Camal walks towards the goal with a sense of mission accomplished. “I feel accomplished”.

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