Mozambique: A Million Children Still Unable to Study

Over a million Mozambican children of school age will be unable to attend primary school in 2004 for sheer lack of space in the classrooms. According to Virgilio Juvane, the National Director of Planning in the Education Ministry, it is mainly the shortage of schools and of teachers that leads to this situation. The million children in question are aged between six and 13 and should, in principle, be studying in first and second level primary education (grades one to seven).