Who will help us learn, roofless Samfya Pupils ask

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Chang'wena Primary School pupils learning under "The Chimutengo class"

AS the Zambians battle the lethal COVID-19, everyone hopes that after the lockdown, their life will come back to normal and that they will once again go to their places of work or learning and pickup where the left and live happily ever after.

However, the same cannot be said about pupils of Chang’wena Primary School in Bangweulu Constituency of Samfya District on the Tuta Road.

As the learners and their teachers sit at home observing the Covid-19 lockdown, they worry of what their lives will be post the pandemic.

Chang’wena Primary School which is the only school for 16 villages and over 415 pupils with only five teachers.

In early January, heavy rains and winds battered the already old and frail classrooms blowing off the roof and knocking down the classroom walls.

And today, here in the deep of Luapula Province, what was surely the only getaway from poverty was literally gone with the wind.

And according to Philip Musonda, Chairman of the school’s Parents-Teachers Association (PTA), the lack of classrooms has already began manifesting its ugly consequences.

“Attendance by pupils has gone down and the number of children quitting school has increased as most children cannot withstand the cold, rain and sometimes hot sunshine  that they have to undergo as they learn under trees”, he lamented.

He complained that despite bringing the issue to the attention of the past area MP, no progress had been made and the people were now looking for well-wishers to assist rebuild the school.

“The children need something to return to, something to give them a path from their parent’s poverty. I’m appealing to any person to intervene in the problem here.”

Meanwhile, check by Kalemba discovered that the site for the school also lacked toilets and the only water source was a well.

©Kalemba June 23, 2021

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