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which might deter their commitment to delivery of quality teaching services. More of these are income generating activities, as discussed under coping mechanisms. Box 1: Teachers Feelings about Salary Delays Today is 20 th December, 5 days before Christmas and our colleagues from Agriculture and Health are already getting their salaries. With us there is nothing… and people at the DEM’s office are saying even the Pay-Roll for Teachers is not yet in. Head Teachers are phoning me all Day – PEA, Mulanje We have heard that the Head Teacher is gone to collect our Salaries today 29 th December, 4 days after Christmas, and we already incurred a lot of debt as we ere trying to make our families happy during Christmas. This means all the money will just go to our debtor due to high interest rates. This means in the month of January, it will be tough and I will need more other means to raise money to keep my household going….. should I miss classes, it will not be strange and l will not be alone – Teacher, Kasungu All of us on Malswitch have not yet accessed our December salaries and today is 5 th January. We have gone to the bank at Mzimba Boma three times, spending MK900.00 each time, yet there is nothing. We are still incurring debt in addition to what we already incurred for Christmas. I do not what to do in January, it would not be surprising if l do not teach or teach infrequently and partially – Teacher, Mzimba Salary delay is worse for me since I am HIV+, and I need to buy my food and medical requirements at all times. I can hardly engage in other activities liee farming because I need to safeguard my energy and health. Thus, in such cases of salary delays, I just stay home so that I should not be active, but my health is still at high risk, even the Head Teacher knows and cannot do anything. However, it is my class that suffers – HIV+ Teacher, Kasungu While many teachers (77%) know their official pay day [27 th of the Month], it was discouraging to note that only 4.3% had ever received their salaries on the official pay day ‘since they joined the teaching profession’. It was noted that this fails to take place even during the month of December, the Christmas Month, when almost all other sectors and professionals get their pay earlier than usual. This study was deliberately conducted in the month of December – January and attested to this fact that none of the teachers in the three districts had accessed the salaries before Christmas Day. It was also revealed that in the normal time, the most frequent pay day is 2 nd of the Next Month (63.2%), with the earliest being 29 th of the Month (12%) 15
and the latest being 11 th of the Next Month (2%) [the rest receive any day in between]. In many cases teachers are not happy with the untimeliness of the salaries. The delay causes panic in the teachers’ households as they run out of household consumables and are uncertain about when the salaries will come. Teachers engage in other activities in order to raise money to meet their household needs. It was uncommon in the study areas to find ‘Part-Time Teaching’ as a way of raising money among teachers, but rather business and farming. The study notes that these by nature do not build the teaching profession, yet they are labour intensive and time consuming, taking away the teachers’ time to commit to delivery of quality services. As quoted in the box, teachers lament the lack of consideration in the MOEST to pay them in time for their Christmas Festival during the month of December (as a special month). The study revealed that many teachers have to go for loans and credit to make up for this, and the loans come with even higher interest rates due to the high demands. The situation makes their life even worse. To repay such loans, they need to engage themselves into income generating activities even further, taking more of their teaching time. As attested in the box above, the situation is worse for Teachers Living Positively with HIV/AIDS. These teachers have extra demands on their food and medical requirements in their every day life such as extra nutritious foods and Anti Retro- Viral Therapeutic needs. In circumstances where salaries delay, these teachers fail to buy food requirements or find transport money to travel to their nearest hospitals to collect Atro-Viral Therapeutic drugs to boost their immunity and health. While this endangers their lives (possibilities of living longer), it makes them stay weaker and unhealthy for most of the times and fail to deliver quality teaching services. This is even worse in rural areas where distances are usually longer and the situation is 16
Page 1 and 2: FINAL REPORT PUBLIC EXPENDITURE TRA
Page 3 and 4: LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: Teachers
Page 5 and 6: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Community Base
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Page 13 and 14: 1.3 Scope of Work To achieve this p
Page 15 and 16: Having agreed on the above, pre-tes
Page 17 and 18: 3.0 STUDY FINDINGS 3.1 Demographic
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