Africa-Press – Cape verde. At the start of the new school year, the Mosteiros City Council is distributing school kits to more than 250 elementary and high school students to ensure equal access to the education system.
According to a statement from the Mosteiros City Council published on its social media page, the kits, consisting of backpacks, notebooks, pencil cases, pens, pencils, erasers, colored pencils, rulers, clippers, and other essential accessories, represent an investment of approximately 500,000 escudos.
The initiative, which is repeated annually, aims to serve low-income families throughout the municipality to ensure that no school-age child is left out of the system due to a lack of materials.
According to the City Council, the resources were mobilized through the Municipal Social Emergency Fund and with the support of national and diaspora partners, primarily in the United States.
The kits are being delivered individually to the beneficiary families through the Mosteiros City Council’s Social Promotion services.
In the municipality of São Filipe, the Ministry of Education delegate, Emanuel Barbosa, announced that throughout the month of September, school kits will also be distributed to students in groups 1 and 2 of the Single Social Registry, aiming to promote equal opportunities in access to education.
In addition to the Ministry of Education’s initiative, the São Felipe City Hall will reinforce support for children from families in the most vulnerable situations, also ensuring the allocation of school kits to this target group.
The Ministry of Education delegation of Santa Catarina do Fogo received 400 backpacks, approximately 1,000 notebooks, and 50 textbooks on Portuguese, mathematics, and integrated science for grades 1 to 5 to support children from the most vulnerable families, with the exception of Chã das Caldeiras and Cabeça Fundão.
The 69 school-age children from the 1st to 4th grade of the communities of Cabeça Fundão and Chã das Caldeiras enrolled in the 2025/26 school year, 37 students from Chã das Caldeiras and 32 from Cabeça Fundão, received last August, from the Edukamanjaro Association, “kits” with school materials, according to the delegate of the Ministry of Education of Santa Catarina do Fogo, Osvaldo Rodrigues.
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