China embassy gives TSN 53m/- grant for educational pullouts

THE Embassy of China to Tanzania and Tanzania Standard (Newspapers) Limited (TSN) on Thursday signed an agreement under which the embassy would grant 25,000 US dollars (about 53m/-) to the company to finance education pullouts.

The grant will be funding the production of the weekly pullouts, Academy and Elimika, published in the ‘Daily News’ and ‘Habari Leo’ respectively for a period of one year, according to Minister- Counsellor of the Embassy, Mr Gou Haodong.

Shortly after the signing ceremony in Dar es Salaam, Mr Gou said yesterday’s agreement was a renewal of the support to the publications, noting that last year the Embassy granted over Sh30m/-for such purpose.

The embassy believes that the support would also improve the content of the two pullouts by providing more academic materials to the school children.

“Our motive is that we want to be part of improving education because children are the future of the nation and education is the backbone.

So we think we can do something in this area,” he said.

TSN’s education project manager, Ms Ichikaeli Maro, noted that among other things, the pullouts are going to contain Chinese proverbs and philosophy abstracted from some of the Chinese books. With Chinese content in the pullouts, it is expected that school children will learn about China including its culture and civilization.