By Benedicto Hosea | Project Leader
It is now the rainy season in Zeze, people are busy planting in the fields and everyone has a difficult time travelling as the rain turns everything into mud. Students generally walk long distances to school and so get very wet on the way there and back. School is made particularly difficult due to the lack of teachers, particularly in science, few text books and large classes. However they know that education is the route out of poverty and so want to study hard.
Often their families cannot afford the cost of kerosene or batteries so they have to stop studying when it gets dark. Kerosene has other dangers - smoke that irritates eyes and the very real risk of fire. This has happened twice in the last 12 months when small children accidentally knocked over a light. Luckily no one was seriously injured, but both families lost all of their meager possessions.
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