MoE confronts issue of shortage of cleaners

MoE confronts issue of shortage of cleaners

By Majd Othman

KUWAIT: As the Ministry of Education continues to confront the issue of a shortage of cleaners in public schools, Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education for Administrative Affairs and Development Rajaa Bouarki told Kuwait Times the Ministry has set an alternative backup plan for schools facing a shortage, which includes hiring local cleaning companies to do the cleaning work during the evening period. “Due to the difficulty of male cleaners entering girls’ schools during the morning working hours, we provided a night shift, as the ministry understands the large areas of public schools cannot be covered and cleaned by the small number of female workers provided in the morning shift,” she said.

“Currently, we have covered most of the educational areas with workers, as we have stability now in Jahra and Farwaniya areas and the contracted company is committed in doing their work, while the cleaning company will start work in Hawally educational area by October 1,”Bouarki pointed out. “Some educational areas suffered from cleaning companies that did not comply with our contracts and were delayed in providing services, such as in Mubarak Al-Kabeer area.

So the ministry took all legal measures against them according to contractual terms. It