Malimba School, Monze District

We’re here in Monze District to deliver some teacher training and to install solar panels at Malimba School. This school has been newly built by Friends of Monze who asked us to install the panels on their behalf.

We set off early with the solar panels lying on a mattress on the back of a lorry. Our route took us through a large farm. We had to stop and have the tyres sprayed as there is Foot and Mouth around.
We were greeted by excited school children on our arrival.

The equipment was unloaded and Howard ran through the principles of the installation with a group of teachers and members of the local community. Several of them had installed small panels before so understood the process.

We brought a projector, laptops and RACHEL learning resources on a Raspberry Pi server. Teachers and members of the local community were very interested in the various modules. A mother brought her toddler to hear the African story Books and some of the ladies even read stories to Howard in the local language Chitonga.

A local smith is making a frame for the panels and this should be all done and up on the roof by the time we return to Malimba on Friday for the official opening.