Friday 28 March 2008

A day in the life - visit to a rural primary school

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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