For those who followed my stories about AIDS’ impact on Zambia’s educational system: This story from Tanzania.
“HIV/AIDS is also a major cause of absenteeism and has affected the provision of education in various ways. First, experienced teachers are dying in droves. Tanzania’s Education Minister Joseph Mungai recently announced that more than 140,000 teachers had died of AIDS-related diseases in the past two decades…
“This attrition and absenteeism due to illness has increased workloads on the other teachers. ‘I am teaching Kiswahili and mathematics and I have 16 periods a week,’ a female, Grade A teacher in Ludewa urban district said. ‘In the classes that I teach, there are between 120 and 150 pupils. This is a very unsatisfactory situation.’”
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15 March | 11:15 | scott
Sorry about being entirely unrelated to the post, but you should read about the International Mixtape Project at stylusmagazine.com. I can't help but think this sounds familiar... Is that Joshua Tree reference an homage of some sort?
16 March | 7:53 |
Josh... are you dead?
16 March | 10:07 | sinclair
I think he's partying at SXSW
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