Wed, 18 Oct 2017 09:53:08 +0000 By Jossy Chaima ELEVEN primary schools in Kitwe have been identified and will be turned into secondary schools. Kitwe District Education Board Secretary (DEBS) Allan Kaoma says pupils at senior level had not been performing well due to congested classrooms and opening up new secondary schools would decongest the affected schools. Mr Kaoma said area members of parliament from different wards had been engaged and the community had agreed to contribute K100 per pupil. He said K250, 000 was expected to be raised from contributions of members of the community from each school and a targeted K300 000 per school including contributions of the MPs. “We do not want to engage government in this programme, we sat down with different MPs and some have given us funds either personal or CDF and members of the community have agreed to contribute k100 for every pupil, we are trying to raise […]
