Tanzania Education Authority (TEA)
The
Tanzania Education Authority (TEA) has signed a three-year pact with
Total Tanzania Limited to provide desks to primary schools in Dar es
Salaam municipals.
The support is meant to boost government's efforts in implementing the Big Results Now Initiative which need to see the country transforms to middle-income economy.
Speaking in Dar es Salaam yesterday at the launch of the project Assistant Director for Primary Schools, Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, Sara Mlaki said that the pact has come up at the right time when there is a huge shortage of desks in primary schools forcing some pupils to sit on the floor.
The support is meant to boost government's efforts in implementing the Big Results Now Initiative which need to see the country transforms to middle-income economy.
Speaking in Dar es Salaam yesterday at the launch of the project Assistant Director for Primary Schools, Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, Sara Mlaki said that the pact has come up at the right time when there is a huge shortage of desks in primary schools forcing some pupils to sit on the floor.
Total Tanzania Limited will provide 1000 desks to ten schools to Dar es Salaam municipals.
Mlaki also said that currently Dar es Salaam has a shortage of 130,937 desks which is about 47.5 percent; however, currently primary schools in the city have about 68,752 desks.
“This pact will at least address the problem of pupils in Dar es Salaam sitting on the floor in classrooms, we believe after three years of the project a number of pupils writing when seated on the floor will have decreased or will be no more,” she said.
For his part, Total Tanzania Managing Director Steven Gay said: “The main driver behind this new direction taken by Total is in the firm’s dedication to provide innovative and contemporary solution as well as its commitment to sustainable development.”
“We have committed to provide about 1000 desks to primary schools in Dar es Salaam, and through three years of the pact we will continue providing more than these.”
Reflecting the group’s determination to contribute to local development and establishing long term roots, Total has already rolled out numerous projects throughout Africa.
In Tanzania Total will adopt the new identity in all its 24 service stations currently operating and has plans to build three stations in every two years for the coming four years.
Officiating Total’s state of art service station at Africana, Ministry of Minerals and Energy Resource’s Commissioner Stanley Malisa said: “We must commend Total on this new step they are taking in providing more quality and efficiency services to its clients and for being environmental friendly as well as sharing its profits to the community.”
TEA‘s Executive Director Rosemary Rulabuka applauded their pact with Total and said: “We are happy to see Total comes in forefront to assists pupils in primary schools with desks. “There is a scarcity of desks in those schools….we believe the pact will ease the problem,” she said.
SOURCE:
THE GUARDIAN
