Malawi: Projects improve quality of education in more than 2,000 schools

A five-year project encouraging community participation has improved the quality of education in more than 2,000 schools in Malawi, where the system has been battling with an unmanageable number of admission seekers. "The project has mobilised communities to construct additional school blocks in 1,964 schools in 15 districts. Essentially our task was to change the communities' attitude towards education - so we got them to construct the blocks in schools in their localities," Zikani Kaunda, head of CRECCOM told IRIN.