Kasempa pupils learning in church buildings

PUPILS at Kelongwa Primary School in Kasempa District have now gone over one year learning from church and court buildings.

This follows delayed rehabilitation of the school, which was closed by health authorities in February last year because of the dilapidated state of the building infrastructure.

This subjected pupils to learning from church and court buildings in the areas.

Kasempa District Commissioner Victor Keyekesi said in an interview yesterday that the pupils at the school had to date continued to learn from church and court building structures within the area.

He said this was because the school required extensive renovations to make the building infrastructure safe for learning.

“The school developed huge cracks and was on the verge of collapse due to lack of maintenance as it had not received any facelift since 1948 when it was constructed,” he said.

Mr Kayekesi said Government in January this year provided some funds about K70, 000 to help with renovations of the school but that the money was not sufficient to cater for the huge works involved in improving the state of the dilapidated infrastructure.

The district commissioner, however, said the comforting thing to the parents was that Government had now embarked a project for construction of a boarding school in the same area.

“The site on which the boarding school is to be constructed has already been identified and a Chinese contractor has done the clearing in readiness to commence the project,” he said.

Mr Kayekesi expressed happiness with the boarding school project because it raised hope among parents who had started losing hope of their children accessing quality education.