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Home > Zimbabwe: Hundreds of thousands may be out of school

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Thursday, May 6, 2004 - 03:00
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Education [2]
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155 [3]
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About 800,000 Zimbabwean orphans and disadvantaged children who depend on state assistance to pay school fees may be unable to enrol when the new term begins next week. Under the Basic Education Assistance Model (BEAM), the government had allocated Zim $3.8 billion (about US $753,000) to pay the school fees of orphans and disadvantaged children, but Lancelot Museka, the Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare permanent secretary, announced this week that the money had run out after just one...read more [4]

About 800,000 Zimbabwean orphans and disadvantaged children who depend on state assistance to pay school fees may be unable to enrol when the new term begins next week. Under the Basic Education Assistance Model (BEAM), the government had allocated Zim $3.8 billion (about US $753,000) to pay the school fees of orphans and disadvantaged children, but Lancelot Museka, the Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare permanent secretary, announced this week that the money had run out after just one term of the school year.

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