Govt. Distributes 6 Million Exercise Books

Exercise books with Government seal ready for distribution A total of six million exercise books has been distributed nationwide under President Julius Maada Bio’s flagship Free Quality Education initiative. The distribution exercise commence last week to primary schools across the country before coming down to Freetown, according to a spokesman for the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary School Education. The loading of the exercise books into vehicles for transportation to various schools across the country commenced over the weekend. It could be recalled that about two weeks ago, the Government of Sierra Leone disbursed about Le25Bn. (twenty-five billion Leones) to schools across the country for tuition and other composite fees. The Free Quality Education initiative is a flagship project of the SLPP New Direction government of President Julius Maada Bio and already, at least two million children are expected to benefit from this policy.