By Steve Chirombo

Dedza, January 17, Mana: Standing in a hard to reach area and at a distance of about 56 kilometers from Dedza Boma, Chiitana is a full primary school under Group Village Headman Mwenje in Traditional Authority (TA) Kasumbu and boasts about over 800 learners.

The school, with insufficient desks, has only two temporary classroom blocks which were made possible with support from community members and other well-wishers of Indian origin.

The rest of the classrooms are improvised grass thatched posing threats to learners especially when the weather is not favorable. No wonder, for the past two academic years, when it turned into a full primary school, no learner has been sent to a national let alone a district secondary school.

Malawi News Agency (Mana) photojournalist, Steve Chirombo, captured the highlights.