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Zambian Students Abroad Cry Foul Over Unpaid Allowances
Do we have to sleep at the embassy for us to be heard? ,
Do we have MPs in parliament who are responsible? ,
Why can’t minister of education be questioned on the always delayed allowances for students in Russia, China, Algeria, India and all across the globe where GRZ send students to study?
If we do, Let MPs in parliament take minister of education to task and demand that a strategy be formulated that will bring an end to this embarrassing and immoral act of starving students abroad. This is a clear sign of lack of leadership and disorganization of the highest order.
This is not the first time this is happening, it happens every time we are supposed to get our allowances, it never comes on time. This issue has been raised a number of times but the government has not come up with any amicable solution to paying us our allowances and medical insurance policies in time.
The start of every academic year needs a certain amount of money. Firstly, on 01 September we need about $400 for hostel fees ,about $200 for medical insurance(which if you don’t have you will not be register as a student and will not write exams), about $50 for renewal of the student Visa and about $100 for full medical checkups. In short, a student needs a minimum of about $800 at the start of every academic year which is 01-09. Most universities do not allow students to start school without the above mentioned requirements.
There is a far cry amongst the Zambian community here. Not only are we a joke, we are also recurrent beggars, our colleagues from other countries are even avoiding us now, simply because they are tired of our endless demands, We are in so much debt(we have already reached our debt ceiling). We are even wondering why the government keeps on sending students here when they cannot afford to take care of the few who are here. Each year, Zambia sends more students here than any other country in Africa, Just for the 2013-2014 academic years, Zambia sent around 105 students .Secondly, we desperately need an increment. The last time we got an increment was in 2008 right before the world financial crisis. Ever since, prices of goods has risen as much as 90%. While the Zambian government has increased its salaries 2 times just within two years. The $250 per month is not enough at all. Russia is a very expensive place to live in, Moscow is now the second most expensive city to live in in the world. Our (well taken care-of) fellow students from Botswana gets $750, Nigeria gets $600, Angola gets $500 and Guinea gets $500 per month, just to mention the few. And their money comes on time, maybe simply because their government understands better what it takes to a foreign student in an alien land like Russia. My final appeal to the PF government is to be efficient enough in the way they hundle NATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES. Please pay us our allowances on time and take some time to revise on what you offer to us. I believe no soul has to be lost to be convinced that the house is not in order but at the moment, what we are going through, is pretty worrisome as we have massively cut our eating schedules due to reasons best known to our own GOVERNMENT!
Lastly A word of advice to anyone who wishes to come and study here under the Russian/Zambian scholarship, do more consultations and make sure your parents can stand for you in days like these
Living in Russia or just in another country where you have no relative is not JOKE
May God bless Zambia.
Yours faithfully,
Zambian students in Russia
Posted by Kunda
on October 21, 2013. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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Umwina Nswi
October 21, 2013 at 1:56 am
My heart bleeds to hear of what our scholars on GRZ abroad are going through. I didn’t know that Russian scholarships are paid for br GRZ. I only hope the person responsible will urgently attend to the cry of our galant scholars. It’s difficult to concentrate when going through a lot financial, material and emotional challenges. Plz someone hear the cry of the children of the Zambian soil in foreign land. In addition, govt need to provide employment opportunities for scholars graduating from sponsored programs both home & abroad. It’s very shameful to see youths graduating from universities and colleges on whom govt spent colossal sums of money to educate roaming the streets. Indeed God bless Zambia.
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October 21, 2013 at 2:22 am
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dalitso
October 21, 2013 at 3:59 am
From 2008, six years still studing .is it medicine or r just politics
BaKolweMUGovt Ebala Lyesu
October 21, 2013 at 6:08 am
Bring something new. You are late we ready and blogged on this matter on ZWD and LT
one kabwita
October 21, 2013 at 6:56 am
Sad reading. It is so embarassing for our students to be passing thru such a situation. Dr Phiri, kindly look into this matter coz it is serious.
katwishi mukwai
October 21, 2013 at 10:56 am
from 2008 still studying,are you failing?
chichi
October 21, 2013 at 11:52 am
Ba Sata and ompany pliz pay our brothers and sisters in russia,twapapata
Denkete
October 21, 2013 at 8:30 pm
U were told that its rough in Russia but u still went. The only things these younsters enjoy are the flights to russia, the an faithful russian girls who like their mandingos and the illusination that they are in europe. Go offload potatoes at the markets from trucks from finland or work at streap clubs or night club door bouncers. Ok on a very serios note ,My advice is use this as an opportunity to get accepted in universities or colleges in the uk, germany, holland, usa etc were u can work n study. Get the hell out of there. Have they stopped beating u up in the streets?
Muhajidin
October 21, 2013 at 9:19 pm
They havent stopped,they re still beating us!!!
zikomo
October 21, 2013 at 9:19 pm
Just come back and study at John Mushindo University. Kikikikikiki!
zedian
October 21, 2013 at 10:54 pm
LOL wansekeshya chikala chobe