Minister for Education Dr Mahendra Reddy has assured parents of school dropouts that they will help them in trying to get their children back to school.
Reddy highlighted this while distributing school stationary to school dropouts at the Technical College of Fiji in Nadi today.
He says all they need is a little bit of support and if the reason for school dropouts is about poverty, then the only way to break the cycle of poverty is to up skill them.
Reddy says all of the school dropouts have a skill or talent that can help them to pursue their studies.
He says they want to see more children that are sitting at home to come forward and tell them that they want to go to school and the ministry will definitely assist them.
Reddy says they have the infrastructure to see and break through the poverty cycle.
The Ministry for Education today assisted 50 school dropouts who have been enrolled to go back to school in the Western Division.
These school dropouts have been given free bus fare assistance, textbooks, uniforms, stationary and school bags.
They will have to choose the school that is nearest to their home, and the Ministry will enrol them.
The school that will enrol them will give meals to these students throughout the year.
This is a start as the Ministry for Education will find dropouts in each district.
