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Daniel Chigunwe Herald Correspondent
Zanu PF Member of Parliament for Mazowe Central Dr Maxmore Njanji has reiterated the need for public and private players to unite against challenges that hinder the girl child from attaining full access to education.
He was speaking during the handover of a solar-powered borehole donated to Nyachuru Primary School by the Community Schools Education Partnerships (COSEPA) and furniture from the Zimbabwe Health Interventions (ZHI).
Dr Njanji applauded the initiative saying it dovetails with the National Development Strategy 1 program on the establishment of school business units.
“I would like to thank the ZHI initiative to involve the community in making sure our learners are kept in school as our President Mnangagwa always mentions about leaving no one and no place behind,” he said.
“We are proud of this initiative as it is helping the community to break free from the practice of segregating the girl child when it comes to issues of empowerment
“I am pleased to learn that the COSEPA program has made milestones in addressing the problem of drug abuse, the issue of early marriages is being addressed and my constituency has been uplifted by ZHI programs.
” I am grateful for the water provision project which saw a solar-powered borehole being drilled and installed: also under 8.0 in the NDS1 there is an issue of school business units encouraged by President Mnangagwa so that schools have means of income generation. ”
The school head, Mrs Sikhathele Madombwe said they received a US$10 000 grant from ZHI which they used to drill and install the borehole, “We used US$7700 for the drilling and installation of the borehole then the rest of the money we used it to buy furniture including seven group tables, 40 chairs and 101 chairs for the grade one.”
Meanwhile, ZHI said it intends to scale up its work so that the initiative benefits all primary schools in Mazowe district.
“Through COSEPA we realised that people have the power to address their challenges through working, our strength is in our diversity, ” said ZHI’s Mrs Dominica Dhakwa.
“We are facilitators of education development, we identify problems and address them as a community involving chiefs, headman, and all stakeholders,” she said.
“We deal with problems like drug abuse, child marriages, and teen pregnancies, normalising the not going to school of children, this year alone this program has been in six schools but we are scaling up to make sure we have covered all the primary schools in Mazowe.”
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