Mlanda Primary School educates 1,800 children in 8 Form groups with 12 teachers. Class sizes range from 60-200 pupils, in simple classrooms. The children sit on the floor, taught with a simple blackboard and desks only in the classrooms for the older classes.
Mlanda Primary School
Sustain Mlanda knows that the Primary School is the best facility through which to reach and care for the children of Mlanda. At the school, along side their education the health and welfare of the children can be monitored.
The school’s key aims are:
- Keeping girls in education
- Promoting AIDS awareness in education
- Providing sporting opportunities for boys and girls in football and netball.
Achievements
- Cemented, plastered and redecorated all 12 classrooms at the Primary School in 2007.
- Re-painted every blackboard at the school, every year for 5 years
- Provided the school with stationary for the past 5 years
Finished classroom 2007
- Provided the school with sports equipment for the past 5 years
- Provided the library at the school with books for the past 5 years
- Provided 3 doors at the school to secure library, office and staff room
Future
- Desks for more classrooms
- Provide more sports equipment, including football goals and netball posts.
- Provide more teaching resources and teaching aids
- Provide replacement latrines
- Further support for blind pupils
- Build extra classrooms, resource areas for the school
Thank you Laura you are doing great work.