🚨ALERT: STUDENT HOSTELS UNDER FIRE
While many university students are home trying to raise tuition fees for the next semester, devastating news has emerged, a fire has broken out at a student accommodation facility housing students from the University of Zimbabwe.
Inside those rooms are suitcases bought by struggling parents, clothes accumulated over years,research projects, identity documents, certificates, textbooks, groceries, and the few possessions students call their own.
Imagine receiving that phone call while you are hundreds of kilometres away, working piece jobs just to afford next semester's fees. Student accommodation remains one of the most neglected aspects of higher education. Thousands of students are left to rely on overcrowded hostels, unsafe private accommodation, or expensive rentals because universities have failed to provide adequate on-campus housing.
Take NUST for example. A university with a student population of well over 7,000 accommodates only around 180 students on campus accommodation. The overwhelming majority are pushed into private accommodation, often at great financial and personal cost.
How can a nation claim to value education when students have to worry about where they will sleep before they can worry about what they will study?
@ShavaHon
We call upon university authorities, the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education
@mhtestd , and all relevant stakeholders to urgently prioritise safe, affordable, and adequate student accommodation.
To every affected student, we stand with you. We hope no lives were lost, and we pray that support is mobilised quickly for those who have lost their belongings.
@Zinasuzim
#StudentLivesMatter #UniversityOfZimbabwe #NUST #FundEducation #BuildStudentHostels #StudentsDeserveBetter #HigherEducationZW #StudentWelfare #ZINASU
