Tanzania: How can kids learn without playing?

  1. Posted on Monday 8 November 2010 - 10:06
    Mugini Jacob Mwera
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    Mugini Jacob, VoicesofAfrica mobile reporter in the Mara region, Tanzania
    Unlike other parts of Tanzania majority of public nursery schools in Mara Region have been going without playing grounds.
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    A good example of such school is Sababa which is situated in Tarime town , according to class teacher Ms Azamwe Msira.

    ‘Young kids like to play different games but we don't have playing grounds and this is big problem facing our nursery school’, she says.

    Mr Bakengeza Christopher, a secondary school teacher and a sport stakeholder advises the government to start allocate budget that will be supporting development of nursery schools in the country.

    But Ms Azamwe also cites shortage of the text books as the serious problem facing nursery schools in Tanzania.

    A few years ago the government of Tanzania introduced nursery classes in almost all public primary schools across the country.

    ‘My class has 64 kids and this is a good number. Parents have now realised this is good programme and they are bringing their children compared to the past when they used to send them to English Mediam schools owned private people’, she says.

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