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Education Transition Fund Helps Zimbabwe Secure US$30 million
Zimbabwe has secured US$30 million from foreign donors for the production of primary school textbooks, Education Minister David Coltart has revealed. Coltart told parliament that donors made the money available through the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) after the government established an Education Transition Fund last December. This money includes the European Union (EU) has given Zimbabwe a grant this month to distribute exercise books and learning materials to Zimbabwe’s more than 5000 primary schools.
“That money is now going to be applied in the first instance to the production of textbooks for primary schools,” Coltart told MPs this week.
Zimbabwe is emerging from a decade-long economic and political crisis after President Robert Mugabe and former opposition rivals Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara agreed to share power.
The crisis hit the education sector hard. Figures supplied by the Ministry of Education showed a national average of 15 primary school children sharing a single textbook.
With the new funding, Coltart said: “We aim to reduce the textbook-student ratio from 1:15 and to 1:1.”
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