Africa-Press – Angola. The municipality of Cacuaco, in the province of Luanda, has, since yesterday, a school complex for primary and I cycle education, inaugurated by the First Lady, Ana Dias Lourenço.
The “São Francisco de Assis” school complex has 20 classrooms and should welcome 2,400 students in the next academic year.
In addition to the classrooms, the school complex has a library, bathrooms adapted for children with special needs, a computer room, a laboratory and a multipurpose field.
The co-payment school complex was born from an initiative by Mother Generosa Canguya of the Order “Pia União das Franciscanas Missionárias da Santíssima Trindade” and will be managed, on the basis of a memorandum of cooperation, by the Ministry of Education and the Catholic Church.
The works were supported by the First Lady, the Atlântico and Millennium banks and the Ngana Zenza Foundation.
Ana Dias Lourenço highlighted the importance of the school complex for the community, with a view to improving the quality of education. The First Lady said that, in 2017, there was a school made of tin plates and desks on the site, which gave rise to the initiative to build a school complex, which could accommodate more students and improve the quality of education in the municipality. .
He explained that financial issues and the Covid-19 pandemic made it impossible to open the school complex earlier.
Ana Dias Lourenço thanked the partners who helped to make the construction of the school complex possible and appealed to the teachers to continue to contribute to an increasingly better education. The First Lady advised the students to preserve the space.
“This property is yours and you must treat it with great care. Cleaning the school depends, fundamentally, on the behavior of the students and the way they treat the plants, you must not step on them and in the intervals they can help the care team and plantation and always maintain hygiene”, said the First Lady.
The representative of the Religious Community, Mother Generosa Canguya, who created and manages the Centro de Acolhimento Lar de Nazaré, a space adjacent to the school complex, which welcomes 36 girls from 4 to 18 years old, thanked the First Lady for her help and defended the need more support for social actions.
For her part, the Minister of Education, Luísa Grilo, said that the inauguration of the school complex will help to improve the quality of teaching. He stressed that it is a school with all the conditions created for the teaching and learning process.
It guaranteed the support of the Ministry of Education in initiatives that aim to contribute to the development of communities.
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