“I used to walk 2 km to school, carrying my books in a plastic bag used for bread. The others would mock me the whole way. I am very happy that I have this backpack because my mother could not afford to buy one. My bag has given me confidence. I had felt discouraged when the others would laugh at me and the plastic sack I was using. I had even thought about dropping out of school.” Yolanda Bvute, 12, of Marume Primary School.

“We want to thank UNICEF because they gave us teaching and learning materials to use in class. We cannot afford these things, even the parents cannot afford to buy the toys. We were given boards for children to write on, we used to teach them to write their names on the floor but now children are learning to write on these boards. We were given an adequate number of boards, in fact, the boards outnumber our children,” Bumba Primary School teacher