• Government must consider building more schools in rural areas.
• In most rural parts of the country learners still have to spend hours to walk long distances every day.
• The Central Government must quickly attend to this matter.

A Non-Governmental Organization has called for more investment in the construction of new schools in less developed rural areas.
World Youth and Leadership Foundation Director General Nalishebo Nyambe told Money FM News that constructing more schools in rural areas will help to reduce long distances that pupils cover in order to attend classes.
Mr. Nalishebo noted that learners in most rural parts of the country still have to spend hours to walk long distances every day to attend classes, a situation which needs quick interventions.
“The trend has also been one of the contributing factors to early marriages in rural areas for so many years in the sense that most learners would give up on school and get married not because parents have forced them but because the distances being covered just to attend school lesson. In most cases learners in rural Areas reach school when their energy is already exhausted, a situation which leads to poor performance,” Mr. Nyambe said.
He added that if nothing is done, the situation may ruin a lot of young people’s desire for school and disadvantage persons with disabilities despite the free education policy having being intensified, hence the need for government to urgently attend to the matter.
“As a youth organisation which understand the major role Education has as an equaliser of development and the key in reshaping young people’s mindset change, we Would like to urge the Central Government to quickly attend to this matter and ensure that less developed constituencies are given the much needed attention to bring schools closer to the people as it will help to resolve a number of challenges that school going children are facing and reduce the records of early marriages in most rural communities,” he stated.