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The Project would help improve the quality, efficiency and equity of primary education in Lesotho and increase the capacity of the Ministry of Education to plan, design and carry out education programs. It would also help to alleviate the critical shortage of skilled and semi-skilled workers, paticularly in rural areas of the country. To accomplish these objectives, the Project provides for: (a) construction and furnishing of about 150 primary school classrooms; (b) provision of about 1,900,000 primary school level textbooks and workbooks in the three core subjects (Lesotho, English and mathematics); (c) provision of permanent facilities for about 110 trainees at the Thaba-Tseka Vocational Training Center; (d) provision of permanent facilities for about 125 trainees at the Lesotho Opportunities Industrialization Center (Maseru); (e) provision of about 13 man-years of specialists services consisting of an architect, a construction supervisor, a procurement officer and a textbook specialist; and (f) assistance to the Ministry of Education to improve and strengthen its Planning Division and Statistics Unit and preinvestment funds for the preparation of future education projects.