Germans support school construction in Mozambique

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Germans support school construction in Mozambique

10:44 CAT | 17 Jul 2018

DW / Josina Machel Secondary School, Gondola

Over the last three decades, a school in Germany has helped finance the building of classrooms and the purchase of school equipment in Manica and Maputo in central and southern Mozambique.

With help from the students and teachers at a school in Hungen, a small town in Hessen, central Germany, Josina Machel Secondary School in Gondola has had an additional 11 classrooms, chemistry, physics and biology laboratories and shower rooms built, as well as a library and a computer room equipped with 30 computers.

Josina Machel Sekundarschule in Mosambik Agathe Venedey-Grenda (DW/B. Jequete) — Agathe Venedey-Grenda

Carlos Armando, one of the students at the school, acknowledged the generous gesture.

“We have more space to study and better conditions to facilitate learning. We also thank them for providing the computer room. The use of technology is now no longer a dream; it has become a reality for us,” he said.

This partnership comes a long way

Agathe Venedey-Grenda is the representative of the group of Germans involved in the social project, which has over the last three decades supported schools in Mozambique with money raised from private donors and the German Ministry for Cooperation.

“In total, we financed about 10 schools, some of them co-financed. This has been a partnership since 2002, with the German Ministry of Cooperation,” he says.

“Initially, we paid for the expenses with our own small amounts, but now they are larger and support other projects too. The school raises about 10 percent of the project value, and the last four projects have had the support of the Alternaid foundation and the German Ministry of Cooperation, which donated 75 percent.”

School.jm_.dw_ The governor of Manica, Alberto Ricardo Mondlane, praised the students’ initiative, while also emphasising the role of government.

“The construction and equipping of schools has always been a priority for the government. Without the contribution of various players in creating these basic conditions, teaching and learning would come with many difficulties. To give an example: from 2016 to the first half of 2017, 388 classrooms were built by school boards,” Mondlane says.

The rehabilitation and expansion of the Josina Machel Secondary School in Gondola assisted by the donors in Hungen cost 19 million meticais (more than EUR 270,000).

Source: Deustche Welle