ANNE ROBI PRIMARY schools in Dar es Salaam’s Kinondoni district need 19,261 desks, District Commissioner Ally Hapi said.
Receiving 134 school desks from the
Local Authority Pension Funds (LAPF) for Nakasangwe Primary School
pupils in the district, the DC pleaded with other businesses and
well-wishers to support the drive of ensuring Tanzanian children are
studying decently.
“The desk shortage is not only a serious
problem in Kinondoni but a national issue that should be tackled by the
government, with some support from other stakeholders,” he said.
According to Mr Hapi, the municipality was also taking various
initiatives to acquire more desks that would accommodate all the pupils
in schools.
“One of such plans is to cut off some
allowances to our district employees to acquire funds that would
facilitate the initiative,” he said. The District Education Officer, Mr
Kiduma Mageni, said that the District, whose schools have 196,388 pupils
in total, is also in need of 2,235 classrooms and 6,788 toilets.
Mr Mageni who was speaking on behalf of
the Municipal Executive Director said 67 out of the 140 schools had an
enrolment of students above requirement, thanks to the 2016 free
education policy in the country.
He said Nakasangwa School, which has
1,385 pupils has only 60 desks. “Before this donation (from LAPF), the
school had only 60 desks for all the pupils.”
An official from LAPF, Mr Yesseya
Mwakifulefule, said the fund chose to support the district in honour of
their customers’ pupils as well as rallying behind the government’s
resolve to provide better education.
He pledged the fund’s more support to
the district through various social responsibilities for the better
development of the district and the nation at large
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