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Emsizini School

Emsizini School. Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Classroom. Rev. Russ and School Children. School Children. Along the road to the School. Support from Local University. Work Team. Staff Transportation. Planned Staff Housing. Staff. 7 Teachers, 1 school master, 1 pastor Teachers are paid $300/mo

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Emsizini School

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  1. Emsizini School Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

  2. Classroom

  3. Rev. Russ and School Children

  4. School Children

  5. Along the road to the School

  6. Support from Local University

  7. Work Team

  8. Staff Transportation

  9. Planned Staff Housing

  10. Staff • 7 Teachers, 1 school master, 1 pastor • Teachers are paid $300/mo • Teachers have to pay $100/mo for a 1 room apartment • Teachers also have to pay for transportation to school, no public transportation • There is a governor body

  11. School Facilities School Buildings 4 classrooms Future Toilet Facilities Water Supply Maintenance quarters

  12. View of School Grounds Current Toilet Facilities

  13. School Grounds after Rain

  14. Parsonage

  15. Paint Crew

  16. Road to the School

  17. Children in Class

  18. The Neighborhood

  19. After a rain storm

  20. New Agriculture Tools

  21. Financial Information • There are cash-strapped governments, and there are broke governments. And then there's Zimbabwe, which, after paying last week's government salaries, has just $217 in the bank. No, we didn't forget any zeroes to the end of that figure. Zimbabwe, the country that's home to some of the world's largest plutonium and diamond reserves, is literally as rich as a 14-year-old girl after a really good birthday party. The country's finance minister admitted as much in a press conference on Tuesday. "Last week when we paid civil servants there was $217 [left] in government coffers," TendaiBiti told reporters. "The government finances are in paralysis state at the present moment. We are failing to meet our targets." So it seems. However, Zimbabwe is hardly a stranger to financial hyperbole. The economy started to come apart at the seams in 2000, when President Robert Mugabe seized the land of over 4,000 white-owned farmers, effectively dismantling the country's agriculture industry. Over the course of the next decade, the country spiraled into an extended period of hyperinflation, the likes of which the world almost never sees. It peaked in August 2008, when inflation reached 11,200,000 percent and economists around the world started to say that the country's situation was hopeless. Prices were doubling by the day, and the government had to print 100 billion Zimbabwean dollar notes. The following year, they went ahead and printed Z$100 trillion notes, just before deciding to chop 12 zeroes off of the currency. A new coalition government formed that year began the long process of recovery, a process that is clearly going to take a little longer. It's unclear how the Zimbabwean government is going to get itself out this fiscal mess, but whatever it does, it needs to do it quickly. As Quartz's Tim Fernholz points out, Zimbabwe is looking at $104 million bill for its upcoming election and dealing with brand new allegations that government officials have been running a corruption ring around the country's diamond mines. The country obviously desperately needs a major change. "But action against corruption probably won’t come until the end of Mugabe’s reign, and a new constitution coming up for a referendum this spring—presuming the funds can be found -- might set up the aging autocrat for another term in power," writes Fernholz. Until then, looking for quarters under the couch isn't going to cut it, so Zimbabwe is doing the only thing it can do. "We will be approaching the international community," Biti said. You'll never guess who's most likely to come to the rescue. Hint: They're big fans of rare minerals.

  22. Local Economy

  23. New well for staff housing

  24. Rev. Russ and Friends

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