The Prime Minister sampling the beauty of the desks for Kiembe Samaki Primary School - photo by Daily News.
Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda has promised to contribute 135 desks and chairs to Kiembesamaki Primary School in Magharibi Region after it requested him to reduce the shortage it faces.
He made the promise on Saturday when handing over 45 desks and chairs worth 3.83m/- donated by Jambo Plastics of Dar es Salaam.
The donation was part of the private company’s’ efforts to support government to solve the shortage of school desks in Zanzibar.
Pinda remarked: “The shortage of desks is almost everywhere in the country…the minister for Education and Vocational Training has informed me that the desks donated today can only cater for a single classroom. There are still three classrooms without desks.”
He therefore promised to donate desks for the remaining classrooms so that pupils can learn comfortably. The total cost of the 135 desks that Pinda promised to donate is 11.5m/- with each desk and its chair valued at 85,000/-.
Asked when the desks would be ready, Jambo Plastics managing director Rupa Suchak said they would be handed over to the school within a week because the firm already has some in its store.
Asked when the desks would be ready, Jambo Plastics managing director Rupa Suchak said they would be handed over to the school within a week because the firm already has some in its store.
In her speech earlier, Suchak said her company decided to use plastic materials to manufacture desks in order to conserve the environment.
“These desks last long for we have distributed them to over 400 schools on Mainland Tanzania and we have seen the results….they also help in conserving the environment. Statistics show that more than100, 000 trees are cut for various uses,” she said.
Meanwhile, the Zanzibar minister for Education, Ali Juma Shamhuna who studied at the school in 1952, told Pinda that it had a long history of facing the shortage of desks for its eight classrooms.
He explained: “We have eight classrooms without desks. This is the school I once pursued primary education in 1952. We are still haveshort of schools and we call upon members of the public in Zanzibar to build more, but face a problem when it comes to having desks for pupils to sit on,” he stressed. He therefore called on well wishers to assist the school.
For his part, Magharibi District Commissioner Ayoub Mahmoud Jecha said the district has 64 government schools among which only two have desks and chairs.
According to Jecha, the district has a total of 114,000 pupils among whom 79,000 are in government schools and 35,000 in private ones.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
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