
A typical mud brick rural classroom. The playground has eroded down so far that there's a massive step up to get in!

Mud brick classrooms ("semi-dur"). On the left is class 1 with morning and afternoon populations of 69. On right is class 2 with two populations of 60 children.

Year 6 English class

Year 5 English class. Earth floor. Good shot of the desks typical of every single Rwandan primary school

Bilingaga, a school lost in the bananeraie (banana groves)

On the way home from school, and off to hoe the fields

Population pressure - new house squeezed into the banana groves. I particularly like the way they've planted the garden before they've finished the house!

This is what a typical Rwandan farmhouse looks like

Goat and sheep - just so you can tell them apart!

AAH! Brochettes in a few months' time!

Population pressure in action - new terraces being made at Cyeza

The school office E P Bilingaga (E P = Ecole Primaire - Primary School)
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