Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education Draws Attention with Project to Improve Educational Environment in African Developing Countries

MOU in Writing for Free Support with Kenya Ministry of Education

Support of 440 Trillion Desks and 238 Desk Tops Provided

The Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education's project to improve the educational environment in developing African countries is attracting attention. Following Tanzania, it is accelerating international exchanges through free aid projects with Kenya.

On the 20th, the Gwangju Office of Education announced that it recently signed a preliminary written MOU with the Kenyan Ministry of Education for an overseas free support project.

Through this agreement, a systematic work framework was established to support goods and build a cooperative system to improve educational conditions in Kenya.

According to the agreement, 440 recycled school chairs and 238 desk tops will be provided to Kenya. The school chairs, which departed for Kenya this week, will be delivered to Kenyan students through SEPU (School Equipment Production Unit), a state-owned enterprise under the Kenyan Ministry of Education.

The Office of Education expects that this free support will improve the educational environment in Kenyan schools and establish an educational cooperation network between the two countries.

Meanwhile, since 2020, they have maintained international exchange cooperation with Tanzania by signing an MOU to support educational informatization in the partner country. To build educational informatization infrastructure, they supported 318 million KRW worth of educational informatization equipment in six local computer classrooms over three years. In addition, various ICT technology training sessions were conducted for Tanzanian teachers.

In particular, last November, Superintendent Lee Jeong-seon and the "Gwangju Student Overseas Volunteer Group" visited Tegeta A Primary School and Kimbiji Secondary School?both schools supported with informatization equipment by the Gwangju Education and Research Information Institute?and carried out volunteer activities, continuing their connection.

Through student exchange activities during this process, they played a significant role as ambassadors promoting Korean culture by widely spreading the 5·18 Globalization and Korean culture through events such as the 5·18 flash mob, Taekwondo dance, and K-pop dance.

Superintendent Lee Jeong-seon said, “Our Office of Education has been strengthening support for educational informatization in Tanzania, Africa, and spreading Gwangju’s ICT education policies. With this MOU, we were able to expand our scope by providing recycled school chairs to Kenya. We will continue to spare no effort to ensure that international educational exchanges with various countries in diverse forms are sustained and stable.”