The 3 de Fevereiro Primary School, in the City of Maputo, could be left without energy or water, at any time, due to a debt to EDM, of more than 128 thousand Meticais, contracted last year. Schools in the Nlhamankulu municipal district started the academic year without drinking water, also because of debts. With more than a thousand students enrolled and attending classes, the 3 de Fevereiro Primary School is operating under high alert, because the supply of electricity to the school at any time. The School has already been notified of the debt, as explained by the deputy pedagogical director, Berlino Maulate.”At this precise moment, we are talking about a debt of MZN 128,272.81 (one hundred and twenty eight thousand, two hundred and seventy-two Meticais and eighty-one cents), and this debt refers to the last year until the present moment.”Berlino Maulate says he does not know the reasons for non-payment of the electricity supplied to the school.”We have no way of explaining, because the payment of energy is done by the City’s Education Department. So, we have already forwarded this information. The city’s management is already aware. The school management is aware of what the cut in electricity supply to that public education establishment could mean. “If the power cut is effective, a lot of things could come to a halt in the administrative sector, as we depend on energy to run computers. But we will also have problems with the water supply. We will have a complicated job, because we depend on water for cleaning and sanitizing. Our life here, at school, depends on water.” But this is not the only case of schools in debt, and the problem is not even today. All schools in the Nlhamankulo Municipal district, in the City of Maputo, started the 2024 academic year without drinking water due to the supply cut in December last year, due to debts. However, the situation has already been resolved and, therefore, since last Wednesday, water has been flowing again from the taps in those schools. Source:O País
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