The Travelling Rev: visiting Anglican schools

I went with Fr. Kingsley and Canon Eramus yesterday, they are both worker priests (they have a secular job in the Department of Education as well as being a priest), they are both assigned to the cathedral for priestly duties.

to fulfill their secular position they both have as part of their position that they inspect the schools but for differing aspects. so today we went a visiting.I find it hard to get my head around the frank poverty of buildings in which Anglican children go to learn, the ones we saw today have no water and no electricity. Every morning someone goes to the local bore hole (well) and bring water back.

There were 4 schools today, I am very impressed with the dedication and perseverance that the staff exhibit in these school with such large gaps in resources but they come back day after day and some stay for years for very low pay.

First school: please note, no windows or doors, they put a piece of scrap wood in the doorways at night to keep the animals out, when they have a heavy rain they have to clean the class rooms due to the open windows. To understand how this happened, one government built the school as it is but did not get reelected and the next government did not have it on their priority list. It was built about 9 or 10 years ago. We visited the District Council Manager after seeing this and he assured us that it was on his list to be completed, so hopefully it will be soon.

Second school:

Doors are there, windows are open blocks for ventilation, all school have concrete floors. This school is in a central location to several villages. The dirt roads are in very bad shape with deep ruts and cracks due to rain runoff. In between the cracks are bumps and speed bumps to slow the traffic. If I was driving I would have difficulty going to quickly and the holes and bumps happen frequently.

Headmaster's office, a bit of a challenge in the rain

Third school
Another variation on window treatment is shutters without screening. I was told the difference depends on the builder and architect.

Fourth school
sorry about the pic quality but I did not feel like walking back, building has bricks for walls, this site has a primary and jr. high school with the high school in town.

Kindergarten at most schools
these class rooms are usually board walls with benches to sit on, most with no backs, this building is someone's home with their out buildings but the class rooms are the same type of walls.