An Italian woman, Maria Noemi Bambini, has donated 2,000 euros (about 2,700 US dollars) of her own money, to provide a roof for a primary school in the northern Mozambican province of Niassa.Bambini had heard about the plight of the Mavissa primary school from a Mozambican friend, Mickey Rebelo dos Santos, who has lived in Italy for the past 20 years. She was moved by what he told her and decided to make a donation.Like many primary schools in rural Mozambique, the one in Mavissa is built of flimsy materials, and is highly vulnerable to wind and rain. With a decent roof, however, the children will not have their classes cancelled every time it rains.Speaking in Maputo on Tuesday, on her first ever visit to Mozambique, Bambini declared, after handing over the money “With this support, I hope to contribute to the improvement of the school. The roofing of the school will enable the children to study every day”.Present at the ceremony were some of the children of the Mavissa Primary School who vowed never to miss classes because of bad weather conditions.They say they like to study and know the importance of education, but are sometimes deprived from achieving their dreams because of the limitations of their school.“Our school only has two classrooms, we sit on the floor, we have no latrines and our teachers live in thatched huts, and when it rains all the school material gets wet”, said a representative of the Mavissa pupils, reading a message of gratitude for the gift.The children's dream is that the school, which currently only teaches up to fourth grade, will be expanded to teach the full seven grades of primary education, in order to minimize dropouts, since the nearest complete primary school is 20 kilometres from Mavissa village.Bambini told AIM that she and other Italians plan to provide Mavissa School with minimum conditions to transform the lives of the children.
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