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UNICEF Country Representative Dr. Hamid El-Bashir Ibrahim
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Country Representative Dr. Hamid El-Bashir Ibrahim has praised Zambia for ensuring that over 96 percent of school going children are enrolled in school.
Dr. Ibrahim has told QFM News that government and relevant stakeholders have however a huge task ahead of them of ensuring that children who are not in schools are enrolled so as to maintain this status.
Dr. Ibrahim says Zambia has met the Millennium Development Goal number two in education and since urged authorities to ensure that this is maintained by encouraging parents to enroll their children in schools.
He says there is also need for government to scrap off some of the things that prevent parents from taking their children to school such as school fees.