November 1963 EXPERIMENT IN GHOST VALLEY On a lonely
November 1963 EXPERIMENT IN GHOST VALLEY On a lonely hill, a town is born - Focus on building a nation The threat of disease is great, so kids keep fit by doing physical exercises every day in the dust outside their classrooms. The fight for school began last November. The population was growing fast and the children were running wild. The Government said they had no money. But the people persisted and the Government lent 2, 000, then another 2, 000, said Mr. Charumira. With poles and old tar drums flattened out, the parents built the school between January and March. Today the school has 1, 300 pupils with hundreds more expected next term. It has 30 teachers, who lodge in shantytown or sleep in the school itself, in the teachers common room and the headmasters office both also tar-drum rooms. Today the Charumiras family still live there, but not alone. For perhaps four miles along the river, a shanty town has grown up with about 5, 000 people
