KIRUNDO, February 11th (ABP) – The Minister of National Education and Scientific Research, François Havyarimana, accompanied by other executives from the same ministry, inaugurated on Saturday, February 8, 2025, six classrooms and the administrative block built by the NGO Welthungerhilfe at the Kanabugiri primary school in Ntega commune of Kirundo province (north).
In addition, those classrooms are equipped with 150 benches, 6 solar panels and rainwater collection systems.
The provincial director of education in Kirundo, Léocadie Mukaporona indicated that the education sector in the province is well organized but that it faces a lot of challenges, including the lack of teachers and classrooms. She added that during this school year 2024/2025, at the end of the first term, more than 6,000 school dropouts were recorded. In addition, 45 teachers left the service.
Minister Havyarimana thanked the NGO Welthungerhilfe for this very important and expensive donation.
He urged the staff and students of the beneficiary school to take care of these infrastructures which will also be used by other generations, while asking the students to study courageously and not to think about dropping out of school because, he said, education is the great pillar of the national vision.
Regarding the shortage of teachers, the Minister of Education noted that this is a widespread problem in almost all provinces, but he promised that the newly recruited teachers will be in service from the week of February 10, 2025.
According to the country director of Welthungerhilfe, Francis Djomeda, this primary school in Kanabugiri is the ninth school that benefits from the infrastructure built by Welthungerhilfe. He said that the cost of this infrastructure of Kanabugiri basic school is estimated at 400 million BIF.