KABUL (SW): Integrity Watch Afghanistan (IWA) and Ministry of Education held a meeting on Quality Assurance and Education Trust in Kabul today.
Sayed Ikram Afzali, executive director of IWA said that despite the billions of dollars in foreign aid to Afghanistan, the education situation in the country has not yet improved.
According to Afzali, IWA surveyed 276 schools in 10 provinces and the result showed that nearly 20 percent of schools in the cities do not have access to sanitation and toilets, while 60 percent of schools across the country lack access to toilets and experience poor sanitation.
Afazali added that in many parts of the country there is no budget set aside for building toilets and other sanitation facilities for students. As an example, Afazali said a school in Kunar which is funded by the international donors has no toilets in the facility.
Criticizing the government and the international donors, Afzali said; “we are responsible to make education system free of corruption and provide citizens with better education”.
Afzali also reminded that more than 50 percent of schools in the country do not have a building, and only 43 percent of teachers across the country are trained teachers.
Ministry of Education has been criticized for lack of access to sanitation facilities at schools, and lack of proper school buildings, while the officials at the MoE informed that the budget of the MoE has been cut by 8 percent from 2007 to 2017.
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