Students In Mozambique Are Afraid The Winds Will Blow Them Away
Cyclone Idai damaged over 600 schools in Mozambique. Teachers and administrators struggle to rebuild and keep kids in class in the aftermath.
by Tendai Marima
Apr 26, 2019
3 minutes
School is harder than it's ever been for 13-year-old Antonia Manuel Tom, a seventh grader at Eduardo Mondlane Primary Completion School in Mozambique.
She's got no textbooks or notebooks. She doesn't get enough to eat. And when rain begins to fall, she and her classmates grow nervous. "I'm scared if another cyclone comes, it will take our house and the wind will blow us all away," she says.
When Cyclone Idai hit the shores of Mozambique on March 14,
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