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Malawi Charity Addresses Funding Shortage for Primary Education

Lameck Masina

   NKHATABAY, MALAWI -- Malawi is struggling to provide the free primary
   education to children it promised 25 years ago. Teachers say they were
   not prepared for the massive rise in student enrollment, leaving
   schools without adequate infrastructure, teachers, and supplies. But
   now charities have stepped in to address the problem.

   Dinah Malenga is the only fourth grade teacher at Mazembe Primary
   School in Malawi's Nkhatabay district.

   She teaches 112 students, almost double the recommended 60 per teacher.

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