Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Ministry of Education and Human Development (MEDH) has so far received two million of the 16 million textbooks needed for the current school year, Education Ministry spokesperson Gina Guibunda told a press conference in Maputo on Tuesday (05-04).
Guibunda said that unspecified quantities of schoolbooks were expected to be distributed this month, and noted that 950,000 textbooks previously used in schools in the country have been collected and re-distributed.
Guibunda further explained that the delay in the arrival and in the distribution of textbooks does not affect the learning process, since teachers already have the teaching program, which is the basis for lesson planning.
The Ministry spokesperson said that the Covid-19 pandemic had made shipping goods to Mozambique unattractive, one reason for the delay in the books’ arrival.
Printing and transporting textbooks from India to Mozambique could cost up to one billion meticais (around US$15,657,000 at current exchange rates), she said.
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