Africa-Press – Angola. Technicians from the Provincial Government of Lunda-Sul work with those responsible for the Education sector to determine the real community teachers and prepare the financial conditions for the payment of subsidies, suspended for more than eight years, due to lack of funds.
In a meeting with about 200 teachers, Governor Daniel Neto valued the group’s “voluntary” dedication to work, to mitigate the shortage of teachers in rural areas. strategies to unlock funds above 14 million kwanzas, to remedy the debt and allow the resumption of classes.
“It was through the hands of these teachers that dozens of popular people overcame writing and reading deficiencies”, underlined Daniel Neto, who defends the need to permanent dialogue with community teachers, whose experience and competence suggest the “participation in public entrance exams, provided they are between 35 and 45 years old”.
The official encouraged young teachers to also invest in entrepreneurship, forming cooperatives and associations. “The idea is, with the resources they have, to build schools, even with precarious material, involving parents and guardians in the areas where they live”.
For professors Víctor Licaxi and Araújo da Piedade, from the municipality of Saurimo, the meeting with the president of the province mitigated the despair and proves that the Executive dominates the current reality in the interior.
Paulo Muhanhi, from the commune of Cucumbi, municipality of Cacolo, defends, within the framework of partnership relations with the mining project of Catoca, the availability of vacancies to employ teachers, whose age does not allow them to participate in public tenders.
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