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Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)
6 February 2008
Posted to the web 6 February 2008
Maputo
The Mozambican government is worried about difficulties to distribute school materials particularly in certain resettlement centres for the victims of floods afflicting the central region of the country, along the Zambezi valley since last December.
Addressing a press conference in Maputo on Tuesday to make an assessment of the preparations of the new school year that opened officially on 28 January Eurico Banze, spokesperson of the Education and Culture Ministry, said that there are some areas which are yet to receive these materials and others that received them late.
Just as an example, he said that, for instance the district of Magoe, in the western Tete province, and some others along the Zambezi valley are yet to receive those materials because of difficulties of access.
Banze said that the government has been striving to allocate school materials and teachers in all resettlement centres to ensure that all students will be able to attend their classes.
He explained that to this effect the government has been building classrooms and setting up tents whenever they are needed, and has been hiring inspectors of public works as part of its accelerated programme to build school infrastructures, and decentralizing the management of funds to provinces and districts.
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"The government's plan is to provide every resettlement centre with social infrastructures for people to lead a normal life in these places", he said.
Speaking of new enrolments in the education system, Banze said that there were 600,000, apart from those in higher education, which calls for the construction of more than 3,000 new classrooms this year.
He added that the plan is to hire 10,000 new trained teachers to be allocated across the country, and in terms of housing for them the responsibility belongs to the provincial and district authorities and the communities where they are to work.
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