PORT ELIZABETH - OVER 300 NON TEACHING STAFF APPOINTED AT SCHOOLS IN NELSON MANDELA METRO #PE

More than 300 non-teaching staff appointed at schools in Nelson Mandela Bay metro

The appointment of 330 Expanded Public Works Programme will not only alleviate poverty and unemployment but will also contribute to the stability of schools in the municipality‚ Deputy Minister of Public Works Jeremy Cronin says.

The appointment of 330 Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) non-teaching staff at 209 schools across the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality will not only alleviate poverty and unemployment in the area‚ but will also contribute to the stability of schools in the municipality‚ Deputy Minister of Public Works Jeremy Cronin says.

He was speaking at the launch of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) Metro-wide Schools Ambassadors Programme at the Helevale Recreational Centre in Port Elizabeth.

Cronin said the programme would enable teachers to focus on delivering quality education to learners in a safer environment. The programme will provide work opportunities to 330 community members in the area.

“The participants will be responsible for a range of duties at schools including providing general maintenance work‚ cleaning‚ providing security and general administration work. The programme is critical as it will ensure that teachers no longer have to perform administrative work that takes them away from their core teaching duties. It will also ensure that the process of learning and teaching occurs in a safer environment‚” Cronin added.

He said the work opportunities created through these programmes contribute to the overall target of creating over six million work opportunities by 2019.

In recent years‚ poor schools in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality have been plagued by problems of gang violence‚ drugs‚ vandalism of infrastructure and shortage of staff‚ more in particular of non-teaching staff.

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