Several University of Dodoma students have promised to volunteer at various schools during their upcoming vacations.
In response to a call by former Prime Minister, Edward Lowassa who asked university students and alumni to step up to the many challenges facing the education system particularly the community secondary schools.
He was speaking to a host of students from the University of Dodoma (UDOM) who paid him a visit at his residence in the Dodoma Municipality on Monday evening.
The visiting students are among those who were studied in ward secondary schools built during Lowassa’s premiership in the national drive to increase enrolment.
Chairman of the students’ association, Victor Mbonica expressed extreme gratitude to the former PM on behalf of his colleagues. He pointed out that it is because of the community schools that they are now at the verge of completing their university degrees and to join the nation’s work force.
It is at this point that, on behalf of his accompanying students, he responded to Lowassa’s call urging them to help improve the community secondary schools.
Mbonica pledged that during their upcoming long vacation, he and many other UDOM students will volunteer at various community secondary schools in their respective districts and wards.
They however requested Lowassa, whom some reportedly bid to join the presidential race under the CCM ticket, to afford the schools funding in cash and kind noting that they lack books and other teaching materials and most do not have sufficient desks and chairs, factors that play a key part in students’ attendance and performance.
In response to a call by former Prime Minister, Edward Lowassa who asked university students and alumni to step up to the many challenges facing the education system particularly the community secondary schools.
He was speaking to a host of students from the University of Dodoma (UDOM) who paid him a visit at his residence in the Dodoma Municipality on Monday evening.
The visiting students are among those who were studied in ward secondary schools built during Lowassa’s premiership in the national drive to increase enrolment.
Chairman of the students’ association, Victor Mbonica expressed extreme gratitude to the former PM on behalf of his colleagues. He pointed out that it is because of the community schools that they are now at the verge of completing their university degrees and to join the nation’s work force.
It is at this point that, on behalf of his accompanying students, he responded to Lowassa’s call urging them to help improve the community secondary schools.
Mbonica pledged that during their upcoming long vacation, he and many other UDOM students will volunteer at various community secondary schools in their respective districts and wards.
They however requested Lowassa, whom some reportedly bid to join the presidential race under the CCM ticket, to afford the schools funding in cash and kind noting that they lack books and other teaching materials and most do not have sufficient desks and chairs, factors that play a key part in students’ attendance and performance.
SOURCE:
THE GUARDIAN
