Basic Education Assistance Module (Beam) focal person, Godfrey Mudzengerere, said they entered into partnerships with the United Children’s Fund (Unicef) and other donors under the Education Transition Fund (ETF) to source the textbooks.
“We are very happy that we have all the books that we need and the disbursement of the books begins sometime in September,” said Mudzengerere. “Some of the books were printed locally while others were supplied by international printers.”
He said the main objective of the project was to reduce the textbook ratio for primary schools from one textbook to 15 pupils to one book per pupil.
“At the moment we are in the counting process to find out how many children need books per subject per class, grade and school. This process is aimed at making the disbursing of books easier and to avoid any omissions in the process,” said Mudzengerere.
He said they would be providing textbooks on four core subjects namely Mathematics, Science, Ndebele and Shona, including minority languages as Kalanga, Venda, Nambia and others. He also said the disabled would have special textbooks, such as books in brail for the blind.
The move to provide schools with textbooks comes in line with ETF, which was launched by the Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture in January. The Ministry of Education in conjunction with Unesco launched the fund in a bid to improve the pupil-textbook ratio and helps restore basic education for all in Zimbabwe.
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