Georgetown, Guyana.
October 5, 2022
For immediate release to all media houses.
PRESS RELEASE
World Teachers Day Message 2022
The Alliance For Change takes the opportunity to greet all those in the noble profession of teaching on World Teachers Day 2022. This year’s theme: “Teachers at the heart of education recovery,” addresses the very essence of the major challenge facing our nation. It is especially relevant as schools have recently reopened to full face-to-face learning after being affected for about two years by the global COVID19 pandemic.
The recent images of students in tents, others without desks and packed together uncomfortable on benches show clearly the sad and atrocious conditions under which teachers are forced to work. This is compounded with poor salaries, victimization, and deplorable living quarters for those working away from home and an arrogant political directorate.
The COVID19 pandemic took its toll on the delivery and access to education and many students were unable to access online learning and many more families found it challenging to provide computers, access to internet service and have children supervised during the hours of online classes. But, regardless of these challenges our noble teachers, both in the public and private institutions, worked diligently to produce remarkable results. The Alliance For Change thanks you for your efforts and extends heartiest of congratulations.
The challenges of the COVID pandemic also brought opportunities and showed us that our educational system is capable of doing more. We saw the utilization of online learning and the development of materials to facilitate this mode of education delivery. These are lessons not to be discarded but to be built on.
The Alliance For Change is pleased to see that the present government is continuing the programme initiated by the Coalition to provide breakfast and books in schools and more recently a bus to aid with transportation. The AFC hopes that there will be more of this. It is pertinent to note, at this point, that the Coalition provided government internet access to over 200 primary and secondary schools and the creation of over 250 ITC hubs with free internet across Guyana.
The AFC also takes this opportunity to reiterate its call for the return of free university education; and on this World Teachers Day for an increase in wages for Teachers at a minimum of $100,000.
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