During the interview, Marc Bonnefant announced that the USAID will be able to bring an important support to the production of teaching supports in order to take actions of great scale to support far teaching.
In last June, the USAID shared more than 40,000 receiving sets to allow to the pupils of interior of the country, where neither television nor the Internet are operational, to follow the courses in distance.
Experts of the ministry for Primary, Secondary and Technical Education, EPST, had already cogitated on the possibilities of ensuring the lesson in distance in democratic Republic of Congo, and this, without requiring displacement of the pupils, their residences towards the school places.
The seniors of the sector of teaching in DR Congo agreed on options to be taken with short, average and long terms, in order to continue the lesson stopped by the resurgence of the second wave of Covid-19. It proved much more virulent that planned.
Reliable sources reveal that one recommended proposals to consolidate and reinforce the teaching in distance tested during the first wave of Covid-19 under audio-visual formats via various platforms and channels of broadcast.
There was also question of a wish expressed to further go and to consider the institutionalization of this method of teaching in distance which proved reliable under other skies.
The implication of the partners of education was requested in order to call upon new human and financial resources to support the congolese government in this task which is announced difficult from the financial point of view.
Corneille Kinsala N’soki
(CKS/Yes)