By MOFFAT CHAZINGWA –
PUPILS at Kelongwa Primary School in Kasempa District have gone more than a 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 infrastructure.
This subjected pupils to learn from church and court buildings in the area.
Kasempa District Commissioner Victor Keyekesi confirmed this  yesterday.
He said this was because the school required extensive renovations to make the 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 about K70,000 for renovations of the school but that the money was not enough to cater for the huge works required to improve the state of the dilapidated infrastructure.
The district commissioner, however, said what was  comforting to the parents was that Government had now embarked on a project to construct a boarding school in the 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.