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Okavango students brace for winter of woe

In the Delta: Eretsha children are not receiving the best education or government care PIC: TIMOTHY LEWANIKA
In the Delta: Eretsha children are not receiving the best education or government care PIC: TIMOTHY LEWANIKA

As temperatures drop and days get shorter towards winter, Okavango students are in for a horrific chill, one of learning under shrubs in sub-temperatures with empty stomachs in the dark. Deep in the belly of these Okavango villages, this winter will echo broken promises of a better tomorrow as they continue to live below par, despite their wetland paradise. TIMOTHY LEWANIKA writes

ERETSHA: In this little village nestled between Seronga and Gudigwa, students walk to school every day in an effort to use education as a key out of the dire poverty that has troubled the people of Okavango for many years.

But to learn here is a daring feat requiring endurance in the most challenging conditions a child should never experience.

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