“We are yet to get the $10 million balance for 2012 that we owe schools for the last two terms of the year,” he said.
In its 2010 annual report, UNICEF observed that the poor were struggling to get access to education, and more than a million children and young people of secondary age were out of school, with few educational or employment options.
“Our yearly BEAM budget is $30million for 500,000 children. Half is paid by the UK Department for International Development through UNICEF and government is supposed to pay the other half,” he said. Both government and the donors are yet to pay for the 2013 first term fees.
BEAM has been dogged by allegations of corruption and complaints that school heads, ministry officials and school development associations have excluded needy children in favour of their own relatives and friends.
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