Mozambique: Japan aid agency to disburse €19.7M to build four secondary schools

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Mozambique: Japan aid agency to disburse €19.7M to build four secondary schools

6:31 CAT | 02 May 2020

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The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is to disburse the equivalent of €19.7 million for the construction of four secondary schools in central Mozambique, a source from the country’s embassy in Maputo has told Lusa.

The schools are to be built in the districts of Nicoadala, Namacurra, Mocuba and Lugela in Zambezia province, the source said.

Work is being coordinated with Mozambique’s public works and water resources authorities and energy utility Eletricidade de Moçambique so that the public tender for the works can be launched in September.

The four new schools are expected to serve 2,400 students. They are to be built on the same sites as the existing ones, which are of precarious or mixed construction.

Besides classrooms, the initiative foresees the construction of sports halls, with changing rooms.

Zambezia province currently has 3,653 schools, most of them primary schools, with just 81 being secondary schools.

Mozambique’s population is expected to reach 30 million this year and around half are no older than 19, according to the demographic projections from the National Statistics Institute (INE), based on the 2017 census.

Source: Lusa