Tanga District Commissioner (DC) Ms Halima Dendego has urged primary school headteachers to be aggressive and creative enough in establishing income generating projects in their respective schools.
Tanga District Commissioner (DC) Ms Halima Dendego
He has discouraged them from depending heavily on parent’s contributions in solving minor problems in their schools. Ms Dendego said this when receiving 100 school desks donated by Rhino Cement Company and the Rotary club of Tanga at Miembeni Primary School in the city of Tanga.
She said that some primary school headteachers have already written letters to her, complaining about lack of money to address some challenges like paying security guards and bills for water and electricity.
The headteachers raised the complaints after the Tanga DC ordered them to stop collecting contributions from parents. The DC had said that such contribution procedures were against the country’s education policy and even the money collected was misused.
According to Ms Dendego, parents were supposed to contribute not more than 5,000/-per year in government schools, but here in Tanga the case was different, as each parent was paying between 95,000 and 250,000 per year, thus abusing the free education policy.
By NESTORY NGWEGA, Tanzania Daily News
