Scorching heat and no roof

This is the reality of primary schooling in Malawi today. My information is, that this is the biggest primary school in Mzuzu with over 2000 students.
Half go in the morning and the rest in the evening, but that's what happens here.
This school has four classrooms in a wooden structure and four brick classrooms but two weeks ago the roof was blown off two rooms two weeks ago. Today four classes packed in to each classroom with four teachers, where one teacher taught and three sat. It is the saddest case I've seen. The children would be better, maybe, to have stayed at home.
Mary was visiting today to see how teachers who attended the course given by her group of teachers last Summer ,were doing with new ideas and methods.
The answer here is that every teacher visited are doing amazing work, and she is so delighted and excited about possibilities for an expansion of the programme.
But what is the future when working conditions for teachers are so deplorable. Imagine that very soon the rains will come and these two classrooms will be permanently out of use. Can you imagine 2000 students in 6 classrooms
The pic shows Mary with the Principal, Chairman of the school board and teachers with the sun blazing down into the room behind
There are foundations for six new blocks in the school yard, started in May .but the funding went elsewhere and now who knows when any progress will be made


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