Some five teachers at Masangula Primary School in Mwenezi
East are sharing a dilapidated farm house in which dipping chemicals for the
nearby community dip tank are kept, TellZim News has learnt.
The six-roomed ramshackle and other structures were left
behind by a white farmer who was evicted during the Land Reform programme.
Since the school does not have any single classroom block
for the over 300 pupils who are currently enrolled there, the small teachers’
rooms are also used as storage facilities for textbooks and all other learning
materials.
With a total of seven teaching staff, two more teachers
also share a single room at a makeshift shelter that the school built.
This makes the two structures including the decrepit farm
house the only available accommodation for the entire school.
Teacher-in-Charge (TIC) Gideon Machigere could not be
reached over his phone but TellZim News is informed that conditions at the
school, which opened its doors in 2013, are more than terrible.
Teachers are using some rooms that the former farmer used
as storage facility for farm implements and dipping chemicals as their bedrooms
and kitchens.
“Materials used during teaching are also stored in the same
rooms where teachers sleep. There are no signs that the situation will improve
any time soon. Pupils conduct lessons under trees and during the rainy season,
they rarely attend classes,” said a source.
Mwenezi Acting District Schools Inspector (DSI) Philip
Gumbo could only say the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education was aware
that much needed to be done for satellite schools.
“The district has some satellite schools that are making
some improvements but a lot of them still need a lot of attention with regards
to teachers’ accommodation and learning facilities for pupils. Those are two
most critical areas that need to be urgently addressed at satellite schools,”
said Gumbo.
The entire district has a total of 172 schools, 102 of
which are such deplorable satellite schools as Turf, Bubi, Nyuni, Vezvi and
Dembe. TellZim News
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