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Students from the Institute for Teacher Training (IFP) in the city of Nampula complain that they are routinely obliged to unblock the institution’s septic tank, putting their health at risk.
Trainees told Notícias that they have to do the job on a weekly basis, without any protection, and say that the internship center is so pervaded by smell of human excreta that they have stopped eating there.
In fact, the students say that they will no longer tolerate the situation, and think that the task should no longer be done manually, but that they do it because they fear expulsion from the school if they refuse.
One of the parents who spoke to Notícias said he was shocked when his offspring called him in tears to say he was currently removing faeces from the septic tank with a bucket and without any means of protection.
“In the city of Nampula there are specialized machines for this type of work. We cannot continue to work under these conditions,” he said.
IFP director Ussene Amade confirmed the incident and acknowledged the risks associated with the lack of protective equipment, but said that this happened only once and that he himself had participated because it was an emergency.
Asked why he did not hire a specialist company to do the job, Amade said that procedures for hiring companies took a lot of time.
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