Mozambique: More than 100 Cabo Delgado schools to remain closed – O Pais

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Mozambique: More than 100 Cabo Delgado schools to remain closed – O Pais

1:34 CAT | 23 Mar 2021

"In Mocímboa, with 27 schools, none will resume at this point time". [File photo: Miramar]

More than 100 schools in Cabo Delgado will remain closed this year due to terrorist attacks, the Provincial Directorate of Education has confirmed, going on to guarantee the integration of all students and teachers who have moved to areas considered safe.

“We have 940 schools of different levels in the province, but some have closed because the population left, and others, in the north, because of the insurgency. So only 804 schools will resume,” confirmed Melchior Patrício, spokesman for the Provincial Education Directorate of Cabo Delgado.

“Muidumbe has 14 schools, of which only three will reopen; in Macomia 15 of the 21 will reopen; in Quissanga, five of the 37, and, in Mocímboa, with 27 schools, none will resume at this point time.”

In addition to the closure of schools, the directorate is concerned about the files that were destroyed by the terrorists. Class books, exam terms, results sheets and teachers’ notebooks were lost, along with the vandalising of a computer database, Patrício complained.

In order to prevent students from being disadvantaged, almost all of them were placed in schools in the areas where they took refuge, and the provincial Directorate has sent a proposal to the Ministry of Education and Human Development (MINEDH) to try to recover the lost files.

According to the source, “in order for students to have their documents, including certificates, we sent a proposal to MINEDH to create special groups of teachers and parents and guardians in order to try to recover the lost students’ files”.

According to statistics, the terrorist attacks affected more than 30,000 students and nearly 3,000 teachers. But, despite the security situation, there is no instance in Cabo Delgado of schools closing for lack of Covid 19 prevention measures.

By Hizidine Achá

Source: O País