Africa-Press – Namibia. The pupils of Onaushe Combined School in the Oshana region’s Uuvudhiya constituency have received a new block of four classrooms and a storeroom constructed with funding from telecommunications company MTC.
The block of classrooms was financed by MTC at a cost of N$800 000 under its rural schools project and was handed over to the school on Friday.
Oshana governor Elia Irimari said that it was well known that education was a catalyst driving development.
“Getting taught in a conducive environment is one of the key contributors to pupils performing well and achieving good grades. Generally, it is destructive and counter-productive for both pupils and teachers when teaching and learning are done under a tree or in a building that is almost collapsing,” said Irimari.
Onaushe Combined School and Aussenkehr Primary School in the //Kharas region are this year’s selected beneficiaries of new blocks of classrooms constructed by MTC at a sum of N$1,6 million.
Local contractors from the regions are used for the projects in an effort to support the local construction industry.
To date, the rural schools project has supported schools in the Kunene, Kavango West, Otjozondjupa, Oshana, and //Kharas regions, at a total cost of N$6,4 million.
MTC’s chief human capital, corporate affairs and marketing officer, Tim Ekandjo, said that with this project, MTC was complementing the government’s efforts in providing proper school facilities.
“Every Namibian child deserves to be educationally groomed and developed in a decent and encouraging classroom, for these are the future leaders of this country,” said Ekandjo.
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