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October is the month of support for schools in the DPRK.

Public attention to education, the number one state affair, has never dwindled, but the enthusiasm for support bubbles up in the month.

Last October, too, the enthusiasm for supporting education grew a level higher throughout the country.

All districts and counties in Pyongyang Municipality turned out for supporting schools competitively.

As officials steadily pushed ahead with this work from a viewpoint that they are fully responsible for the educational development in their regions, many educational units such as Tangsang Senior Middle School and Janghun Primary School in Mangyongdae District were refurbished.

The Ministry of Electric Power Industry, the Ministry of Commerce, the State Academy of Sciences and other ministries and national agencies took an active part in the support for related universities and colleges and educational institutions at all levels in the month of school support. They had already presented excellent educational facilities to the exhibition of educational experimental apparatuses, teaching aids and education support programs and the exhibition of donated educational equipment held on the occasion of the 15th National Conference of Teachers.

In particular, the Ministry of Railways set it as a priority task to support education and sent various kinds of e-educational means and educational equipment and materials to the educational institutions including Pyongyang University of Transport and Pyongyang College of Locomotive Engineers.

It is the unanimous opinion of all officials of the Ministry of Railways that they provide support to education not for honour or praise and it cannot be done simply as a matter of duty.

The Pyongyang Municipal Power Distribution Station, the Pyongyang Spectacles Shop and other supporters’ organizations which took the lead in the support for educational units also gave unsparing material and moral support to schools and kindergartens. 

South Phyongan Province also achieved successes by directing efforts to the work in the school-support month of October.

Officials learned about the problems related to the teaching at schools and took appropriate measures. And the deputies to the provincial, city and county people's assemblies took charge of the improvement of educational conditions and environment of schools and branch schools and provided a large quantity of educational equipment and building materials.

Officials of institutions, industrial establishments and organizations in Waudo District of Nampho Municipality looked round schools in their charge to learn about the situation and sent to them educational facilities, school fixtures and building materials needed for improving their educational conditions and environment.

From the viewpoint of a teacher, not a supporter, Kang Chol Jun, a deputy to the Hanggu District People's Assembly, collaborated with the employees of his unit to manufacture practicable school fixtures including multipurpose desks and chairs and send them to the educational units.