Education Minister promises loans and care for teachers

A week before the start of the 2024-2025 school year, Education Minister Héctor Rodríguez announced a “care plan” Aimed at teachers in various areas, from health to uniforms, housing, food, training grants and loans.

In the health field, he assured that teachers will have assistance in ophthalmology, dentistry and elective surgeries. However, he did not offer further details on the social networksin which he published just three paragraphs of information with the announcement.

“We have signed several agreements with institutions and public banking to guarantee this care; with the commitment to improve the living conditions of our teachers,” Rodríguez published on Saturday, November 21.

He said that in each school, teachers will have to report “their priorities” and then organize assistance with the support of the directors. The plan would begin on Monday, September 23.

The demand for better salaries for teachers persists

Comments on the minister’s post included messages in which users demanded an increase in wages. There were messages such as: “Pay a fair salary, because with what salary do you plan to pay off a loan?” and “what we need is a salary with which we can pay what are benefits for you.”

The Training of Trade Union Leaders (Fordisi) of Venezuela reported on Sunday, September 1 that teachers are mired in a “hopeless lethargy” just weeks before the end of school holidays, due to “terrible working conditions” that include low salaries.

“Teachers in Venezuela receive a salary that does not exceed 15 dollars, this situation negatively impacts the student population, since due to precarious salaries teachers cannot attend classes every day and, even, there is a lack of teachers in learning areas such as, for example, mathematics, physics,” said Fordisi.