Swissport Tanzania Ltd has provided Tanzania Educational Authority (TEA) with 12m/- to uplift education sector in the country.
The Swissport Executive Director, Gaudence Temu, said the contribution was part of the company's corporate social responsibility.
`Education is one of our top priorities, and we strongly believe our assistance will help boost educational sector in the country,` Temu said.
Receiving the contribution in Dar es Salaam Tuesday, the TEA Executive Director, Mercy Sila, said the contribution came at a time when TEA is overwhelmed with education demands.
She said the contribution would help improve teaching and learning environment amongst Tanzania`s schools.
`The country is currently overburdened by schools which lack teaching and learning facilities, so the contribution will help the authority to meet the increasing demands,`
She said most of the recently built schools had limited number of dormitories which posed more risks to
schoolgirls who in most cases suffered from the problem.
`Our focus right now is to assist schoolgirls by building more dormitories in the nearby schools for girls,` she said.
Mercy said that TEA was currently planning to build laboratories to enable students in the newly established schools have access to laboratories and information technology (ICT).
Apart from assisting the schools, TEA was also supporting universities and colleges by building lecture theatre rooms, to meet the increasing number of students in the country.
Since its establishment in 2001, TEA had spent more than 24bn/- for about 344 projects across the country, she concluded.
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