This is the Director / Head Teacher of the school in his office. Because this part of the school is new, it is bright. There are also four chairs with cushions and a table for a meeting area. There is a lockable storage cabinet next to his desk. Some schools have power. I have been to one school that has a computer in the head teacher's office. This school doesn't have either.
Here is a toilet. These are very nice ones made of brick. Many schools have mud pit latrines. This one has "sinks" but there are no pipes attached and therefore, no water.
This is the inside of the toilet. Many schools employ a program where the students rotate turns cleaning the latrine. There are staff washrooms too. These are the same but they are just in different buildings.
This is the outside of a student toilet. The teachers' toilets have locks on the doors.
These are taps for hand washing. They are old cooking oil cans attached to a frame with a foot pedal attached by a string. When child presses the food pedal down, the string pulls and water pours down. Some schools have soap. Some schools have a problem in that the tops for the bottles go missing during the day and then these don't work.
This is the playground. This school is lucky because it has a volleyball net. In the background is the older part of the school. The doors are on the other side.
This is the new part of the school. It houses the upper primary students. The Director / Head Teachers
This is the front of the older part of the school. There are no proper windows and so the children will get wet when it rains. They are also very dark. In some schools the older part of the classrooms have dirt floors.
Me and the head teacher!
Right now, students are on holidays. When they return I will try to photograph a typical classroom with students.
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