For almost two years, students could not develop classes in face-to-face mode due to COVID-19 pandemic.Now with the progressive return, authorities of the Ministry of Education and Cerneco held a meeting to deal with "Paraguay Paraguay Paraguay".

According to MEC Minister Juan Manuel Brunetti, every year US $ 110 million is invested for the snack and lunch of Basic Education children."Additional 270 million will be needed to attend 100% of public sector students," he said.

Therefore, US $ 380 million is needed to feed 1.500.000 students.He also said that the idea is to focus on learning and overcome five critical points in education."We must complete the State Policy for Education.We must resolve where we want to arrive and solve those critical points, ”he said.

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He assured that infrastructure is being improving little by little and that there are even schools that thanks to the phonacide even sports center, but there are still other shortcomings.“Maybe in some institutions there are no lack of repairs and in the Chaco yes.Others need transport and some shelters, ”he said.

He said that they need to make a multisectoral policy and that it must be everyone, not only of the MEC.Likewise, he proposed the development of territorial vocations and a social commitment to education by all sectors of society and the State.

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“We come from a reform that is 27 years old and that expanded the coverage of education from 20% to 90%.We have managed to expand the education budget in the last 20 years, ”he said.

He also stated that the next 90 to 120 days will be key to defining whether a state policy on education will be established with a ten -year program.

For his part, Dr. Enrique Bendaña, from Cerneco, stressed that the important thing is to see how all these plans will be financed and how to carry out national policy to benefit education.

"We want to get something more permanent and that is annual," he said and added that the industries are willing to help, but that help from the binationals and the government should be sought.