| Since 1985 Frannan has been involved in the field of education, beginning with the supply and delivery of equipment to the University of Jordan. The 1990’s found Frannan with contracts to supply and deliver scientific education apparatus to more than 200 secondary schools throughout Botswana for the Boipelego Education Project.
This was not an easy task in a vast, sparsely populated country where many small town and village schools are in remote and isolated areas. Repeat contracts have required audio-visual training, arts, mathematics and food technology equipment. More recently, Frannan has won projects to equip groups of senior secondary schools in the Seychelles and has worked on university projects in the West Indies, Botswana and Ethiopia. Frannan’s biggest education project up until 1998, was Lesotho's Education Sector Development Project. Frannan was appointed as the government procurement agent, to provide purchasing services and training for this project where funding agencies included the World Bank, African Development Fund, European Union, USAID and the Government of Lesotho.
With a budget in excess of US$25 million, the funds were dispersed according to World Bank guidelines to procure goods and services for primary, secondary and tertiary education. Pupils and students from more than 1,000 schools and colleges and the National University of Lesotho benefited from the project. |
