Umguza Primary School which is facing a critical challenge of textbooks got a timely boost after it received thousands of dollars worth of learning materials from a United Kingdom-based trust.
BY MELODY CHIMHAU
The consignment was handed over on Thursday to the school, which has an enrolment of 2 062 pupils and 44 members of staff.
Speaking at the handover ceremony, Collin Nyabadza Children’s Voice Charitable Trust Sports development officer Cosmas Zulu appealed to the government to ease the customs clearance of donated textbooks.
“l wish to take this opportunity to invite government authorities, individuals and businesspeople to work in close partnership with organisations such as ours and others in helping clear imported goods destined for schools as this is the only way we can ensure the majority of our poor rural schools are well equipped,” Zulu said.
“We strongly believe that once these schools are well equipped, poor results would be a thing of the past since the same schools would be in a better position to attract quality teachers.”
He said as an organisation, they wanted to provide a favourable environment that would help children and teachers to pass with good grades.
Nyabadza Trust organisation was started in 2012 with the main thrust of assisting poor rural schools enhance the quality of education by helping them create a conducive teaching and learning environment.
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“In every subject in our school curriculum a child is required to do some great deal of reading. Without knowing how to read, there is no way a child could successfully answer questions,” Zulu said.
The organisation is working on a 45 000 book project from Scotland and intends to donate books to various primary and secondary schools, public libraries and teacher’s colleges and universities.
Zulu said they were working towards providing schools with proper classrooms, teacher’s cottages, sports equipment, books, computers and sanitary pads for girls.
“There is still a number of girls using newspaper and tree leaves as pads due to poverty, as an organisation we want to make sure sanitary pads are provided so they can enjoy their womanhood in a decent manner,” he added.
