By Mustafa Khalifa.
Ghat, 29 January 2016:
Young people in Ghat have been doing up a primary school where many had once been . . .[restrict]pupils and which for years has lain unfinished and deteriorating. Windows were broken or had never been fitted and classrooms had no blackboards.
“We have been working on the project for three days so far,” said Moamin Khodah, one of the volunteers told the Libya Herald, “We have received no official help but have collected donations from people in the town and bought the paint and other materials”.
Pupils at Al-Fajr Al-Jadid primary school had been studying in classrooms with no windows in the depth of winter.
When the young volunteers first visited the school, the children said that they really wanted to be able to learn in decent surroundings. The school authorities were clearly doing nothing about the depilated state of the buildings, they said, so the volunteers took it upon themselves to do the work.
Khodah said that when he began work at the school, a teacher had come up and asked him if he knew how to use a paintbrush. “I replied that no, I did not, but I was learning”. [/restrict]
