Story by Tafara Chikumira
PRIVATE and Public Partnerships continue to bear fruit with the government commissioning three classroom blocks at Mudzengi Primary School in Chirumhanzu in a move meant to deal with the problem of hot sitting at the new institution.
With over US$110 000 used in the project, the classroom blocks were made possible through funding from Delta Corporation and the government’s devolution programme, while the community chipped in with bricks and labour in a sign of great collaborative efforts which usually brings positive results.
The commissioning of the new blocks is part of the broader plans by the Second Republic to establish new schools and expand existing ones, through the construction of smart room blocks and science laboratories.
“We want to thank the government for closing the gap. We are happy as a community. Our students used to study in farm shades but we now have state-of-the-art buildings courtesy of the government,” the school’s headmaster, Mr Serere said.
The government says it will continue to transform the education sector through modernising learning facilities in line with the dictates of the National Development Strategy One.
“Today’s event demonstrates the Second Republic’s efforts under the stewardship of President Emmerson Mnangagwa to transform the education sector and modernise the economy by harnessing the country’s comparative advantage in heritage-based human capital and natural resources guided by the mantra of leaving no one and no place behind.
“Since its inception on 24 November 2017, the Second Republic adopted a bold and strategic policy decision to embrace partnerships and private sector-led innovation, modernisation, and industrialisation of the economy,” Midlands Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution Honourable Owen Ncube said.
The government recently announced its plans to construct 120 new schools across the country through a multi-sectoral approach after international partners have pledged US$20 million towards the projects, while the government will provide the rest of the funding as plans are afoot to reduce the infrastructure deficit.
