The Ministry had earlier tendered the purchase of more than four million readers for the pre primary and primary levels and is now putting out to tender the packaging and distribution of the same items.

According to the specifications the total number of boxes to be distributed exceeds 45,500.

"The funds available to the Ministry of Education for book distribution comes from the Inter American Development Bank 2018 loan, which also funded the acquisition of reading material in the amount of Q80.9 million ($10 million)", reported PrensaLibre.com.

Source: prensalibre.com

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