The red brick classrooms stand on the top of a hill reached by steep, uneven paths.
Unlike most other schools, it had newly-constructed, brightly painted brick classrooms, separate latrines for girls and boys, football pitches, teachers trained... UNICEF helps to improve primary education in Malawi Eight year-old Maureen Kalulu is like any other child her age.
Its spacious brick classroom buildings and dorms (capacity 3,500 students, from pre-K to 12th grade) flank a lovely courtyard with a fountain in the middle.
Even after blistering American airstrikes that killed a large number of prisoners, some remained holed up in the basement of a square, brick classroom building built by the Soviets during their decade-long occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980's.
In Kaihura, Uganda, in 2015, explained civil engineering majors Grace Park and Rebecca Rothstein, a DEID team overcame technical and logistical challenges to help a school build new brick classroom buildings to replace older wood structures weakened by termite infestation.
"These conditions caused some of these children to drop out of school because they cannot cope with broken chairs, broken desks and sitting on bricks, and classrooms with no doors and broken windows.
In practice they still have to buy scholastic materials including pens, exercise books, clothing and even bricks for classroom construction.
The seven-story brick building has classrooms on the lower floors and apartments above.
Here, rather than attempting to change existing doors and windows, it seems convenient to retrofit the confined brick walls between classrooms with carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) to improve their out-of-plane seismic capacities.
The gleaming new compound of brick homes, big classrooms, courtyards and verandas will be a campus where small groups of Congolese women, most of them rape victims, will be groomed to become leaders in their communities so they can eventually rise up and, Ms. Ensler hopes, change the sclerotic politics of this country.
In HE (higher education), creating authentic learning environments within brick and mortar classrooms is not always feasible.
