27 Jan 2010

MALAWI / SCHOOLS

Schools in Malawi are booming. There’s plenty of demand-students are clamoring for an education – but not enough supply, especially in rural areas. WORLD BANK

Posted at: January 27, 2010 4:02 pm

Duration: 01:51

Available in: SD

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STORY:   MALAWI / SCHOOLS 
TRT: 1.51
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / CHICHEWA / NATS 
      
DATELINE: JUNE 2009, MWECHUMU VILLAGE, MALAWI,     
   
SHOTLIST :

1. Close up, children in classroom
2. Wide shot, teacher talking to student
3. Wide shot, children entering classroom
4. Med shot, teacher and children sitting outside
5. Close up, blackboard outside
6. Med shot, child writing outside
7. Pan right, new classrooms
8. Med shot, child in outside class
9. Wide shot, teachers talking outside
10. Zoom out, from mountain to outside class
11. Wide shot, outside class
12. Wide shot, outside class
13. Med shot, Deputy Head walking through school passage
14. SOUNDBITE (Chichewa) Willard Chimwoza, Deputy Head, Mpandunjozu School:
"Some teachers have to travel 80 kilometers every day so it's better to consider those teachers that are coming from far away to get to the school."
15. Wide shot, children playing
16. Med shot, woman welcoming Willard to her house
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Goodwill Gondwe, Minister of Local Government, Malawi:
"MASAF comes in and helps in building these houses, providing the cement, the iron sheets for roofing and the expertise with regards bricklayers and so forth  Mpandunjozu school has just completed its first house and has plans for at least two more."
18. Wide shot, Willard walking to built house
19. Close up, woman talking to Willard
20. Wide shot, children playing soccer
21. Wide shot, girls playing netball
22. Med shot, student writing
23. Close up, handwriting on book
24. Med shot, students writing
25. Zoom out, student girl

STORYLINE:

The Mpandunjozu School in rural Malawi serves more than 700 students from twenty villages.

For the past ten years, primary school in Malawi has been free, and there is plenty of demand for new classrooms, teachers even chalk.

As part of the Malawi Social Action Fund, established with help from the World Bank, workers have built new classrooms, dug bore holes for water and constructed new school latrines all over the country. The number of teachers has also increased, but some classes still have to take place outside and class sizes remain high.

One of the difficulties in rural areas is attracting qualified teachers. And keeping teachers in the classroom is especially difficult if they can't find a place to live nearby and must travel far every day to get to and from work.

SOUNDBITE (English) Willard Chimwoza, Deputy Head, Mpandunjozu School:
"Some teachers have to travel 80 kilometers every day so it's better to consider those teachers that are coming from far away to get to the school."

MASAF,the government's Social Action Fund, is now concentrating on building  teachers houses  right by the schools.

SOUNDBITE (English) Goodwill Gondwe, Minister of Local Government, Malawi: 
"MASAF comes in and helps in building these houses, providing the cement, the iron sheets for roofing and the expertise with regards bricklayers and so forth   Mpandunjozu School has just completed its first house and has plans for at least two more."

With this focus on education, Malawi is on track to have 90 percent of children complete at least five years of education by 2015. And in some districts such as this one, it could well be 100 percent

Filed under 11. - EDUCATION MALAWI WORLD BANK.