BRIEF PROJECT OUTLINE

This school, together with a new temporary building provide four classrooms for 350 pupils. The new building is dark and poorly ventilated and very hot. The roof leaks when it rains, an the children have to be sent home, giving teachers insufficient time to complete the syllabus – to the children’s disadvantage. All four classrooms are noisy and over-crowded and despite their best efforts the teachers are under pressure and stressed by their poor working conditions. Discouraged and demotivated by these poor conditions, and despite the teachers’ dedication and hard work, the children’s pass rate in the annual Certificate of Primary Education exams has fallen steadily since the 2017 cyclone.
The school has a basic latrine which is in a very poor state. The pupils collect drinking water from a well situated 100 meters from the school.

Objectives:

• To extend the school by building three additional cyclone-resistant classrooms – to increase capacity;
• Equip them with_ school benches, book shelves and cupboards, and desks and chairs for the teachers;
• Build a latrine with 3 compartments and boys’ urinals.