Maungdaw, Arakan State: The school headmistress of Myoma Kayandan Primary School has kept World Food Program (WFP) rice without distributing it to students, according to a parent of a student.
“The headmistress, Daw Mya Thein, and her daughter, Shwe Anin Pyu, a primary school teacher, have sold more than 10 sacks of rice for personal profit which were intended for the students,” says the parent.
“The school is getting every month 200 sacks of rice for students who are registered with the WFP. The school authorities (the headmistress and her daughter) are supposed to distribute 10 kilograms of rice per student, but really each student gets less than 10 kilograms when they receive the rice.”
“The headmistress doesn’t distribute rice to the students who are absent on the day the rice is distributed.”
“Every month, the headmistress keeps more than 10 sacks of WFP rice, which are later sold by her. The money is going to her pocket, not to school development.”
The WFP contributes rice to all primary schools except those inside the municipal area of Maungdaw, said a schoolteacher.
“The WFP was going to set up a program to increase the numbers of primary students in the rural areas by providing rice to the students. However, the program was only collecting the quantity of students, not quality of students.”
“The students who receive the rice of WFP must pass a final examination to show whether he/she is learning or not.”
