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Colleges receive biogas equipment.
“School premises have never been as complex as they are now. Today our school environments are invaded by things that are not only destroying students but even our families. Parents even offer gifts to children which have turned to morally destroy them. There is an urgent need to make our school premises a healthy and safe learning environment.” These were the words of the minister of secondary education, Nalova Lyonga, as she decried the situation on July 17, 2019 in Yaounde while chairing a twin ceremony to distribute biogas equipment to certain schools and signing of an agreement between her ministry and Afriland First Bank. Both events, Nalova Lyonga said, aim at implementing the ‘clean school’ concept through the destruction of waste in school and establish school governance through the electronic payment of school and examination fees to improve quality of education. Reading from a book titled “Safe Me” which focuses on teenage drug abuse, the minister of secondary education, in the presence of several government ministers and the Israeli ambassador to Cameroon, Ran Gidor, called on parents and teachers to effectively join the government to save school premises from vandalism, killing, indiscipline, alcoholism and other societal ills. She said there is need to save the teenage generation from ills that can hamper them from making a positive impact in the country’s future which lies in their hands.
According to officials, the ‘clean school’ concept has nothing to do with the pedagogic programmes of schools. Dr Madeleine Shewa of the ministry of secondary education, in a presentation: “Clean school: stepping stone to clean spirit in a clean environment”, indicated that the ministry is out to develop knowledge, attitudes and life skills that will enable students cope with daily life. It involves families, communities and teachers. It focuses on the vital needs of students through participatory learning to acquire knowledge: develop positive attitudes and skills. The Minister of Secondary Education had a special prize for College Vogt and Government High School Nkoleton in Yaounde for being among the cleanest schools in the Mfoundi Division.
Culled from Cameroon Tribune.