Iraq signed agreements with two Chinese companies to build 1,000 schools in the country within two years, as reported on Sunday (19) by an Iraqi government official.
The country needs a total of 8,000 schools “to fill the void in the education sector,” said Hassan Mejaham, an official at the Ministry of Housing, quoted by Iraq’s Official News Agency.
The agreements were signed last Thursday in the presence of Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi, with Power China, to build 679 schools. The Sinotech company will build the remaining 321.
Construction of the schools is expected to be completed in two years, and the first to be delivered a year after construction begins, “very soon,” said Mejaham, adding that Iraq would pay for the project with petroleum-based products.
Decades of conflict and lack of investment in the country have destroyed what used to be “the best education system in the region”, according to UNICEF, the United Nations agency for children, on its website, which says that “one in two schools is damaged and it needs reconstruction”.
Iraq has 40 million people and “about 3.2 million Iraqi school-age children are out of school,” the agency details.
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source https://pledgetimes.com/two-chinese-companies-to-build-1000-schools-in-iraq-istoe-money/
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