The Colegio de Piura activates a kiosk as a classroom and the director denounces that the infrastructure project is 15 years late

A few weeks before the start of the school year, the school authorities Magdalena Llirod Seminar, one of the oldest in Piura, installed a kiosk as a classroom due to the lack of infrastructure on site. According to a report by N channel, About 35 girls will study in this part of the educational center which has been in operation for six decades.

“Last year we adapted it for first graders to study. We have a project within the Regional Government, but for 15 years they have been telling us that it is false and that the findings are numerous. We need two more classrooms. There UGEL Piura He has already made a request, but the infrastructure is not adequate,” denounced the director.

According to the teacher, there are more than 1,500 students in this institution. In this sense, he informed that, for this year, this classroom will be ready for the students of the second year of primary school.

For her part, a mother asked the authorities to renovate the infrastructure. He added that Peruvian and foreign students study in this school.

Images of the TV stand showed that the tin roof is deteriorated. In addition, the room has only a small fan, a situation detrimental to miners who have to endure intense temperatures.

“The board of directors of the educational establishment agreed to close the kiosk to make it a classroom. What we manage is that they provide prefabricated classrooms, but I don’t have a request. I just learned about this situation a week ago,” he said. Carmen Sanchez, Director of the Local Educational Management Unit (UGEL) Piura.

Sanchez He added that he is responsible for 1,655 educational institutions “in deplorable situations”, as is the case at the national level. “However, you cannot tell (the parents) not to enroll their daughters because there are no conditions. Tomorrow I will ask the director to tell us where the document is (where the prefabricated classrooms have been requested) to manage,” he said. N channel.

“Educational infrastructure is another pandemic that needs to be addressed urgently and more so in the health crisis we are going through,” he wrote in A Peruvian Rudolf Giese, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Sciences and Arts of Latin America

Currently, from 54,800 existing colleges, 76% must be structurally reinforced or demolished; 21,100 schools are at an extreme risk level, he said.

With regard to basic services, the situation is more complex since 60% of schools in the country lack certain services, including 40% have no watera, 36% do not have evacuation and 30% do not have electricity, “a situation which makes it impossible to return safely to schools”.