Adventists provide chance for drop outs

 By MIRIAM MALAWA

Adventist Education will now partner with Flexible Open Distance Education (FODE) Central to start a service centre for those who need up-grades for grades 8, 10 and 12.

The initiative was for the Seventh-Day Adventist Church to assist, especially Adventist schools and students in remote areas of Central, to have access to distance education and further their education. 

Adventist Education Central and NCD associate education director Dorcas Kuma said registration would be open on Sunday at Carr Memorial Primary School, NCD, and students wanting to enroll will pay K30 through the FODE account, BSP. 

She said the fee was required as it would be put through the students’ pre-enrolments. 

Because of a lack of capacity, the centre would only open to Central Adventist students who would use their school back in the districts and LLGs as a communication point for classes and to get course books. 

The Adventist education department would assist students with course books and other material. 

“The department will be doing that as a means of service to those students for the fee,” Kuma said. 

The FODE centre provided five subjects from Grade 7 to 10 for which students would pay K490.

“I would like to encourage those who have lost focus to drop by at the service centre as we are open everyday,” she said.