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Lesotho: five classrooms renovated in Mafeteng

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The Vodacom Lesotho Foundation has handed over five renovated classrooms at Matelile Primary School in Mafeteng district after repairing badly deteriorated roofs, walls and floors. Education Minister Ntoi Rapapa welcomed the investment in safer learning conditions, according to TheReporter.

Five classrooms at Matelile Primary School in Ha Seeiso, in Mafeteng district, have been renovated and officially handed over to the school by the Vodacom Lesotho Foundation, TheReporter reports.

The work replaced deteriorated spaces where pupils studied despite leaking roofs, cracked walls and damaged floors. The renovated classrooms now provide safer, brighter and more comfortable conditions for learning.

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