At Kasinsi community school, pupils learn in grass-thatched classrooms built using reeds and mud poles and teachers write on ragged black boards. The school, situated in the remote part of Mulobezi district in western Zambia has three teachers who teach 162 pupils and library but no books.

Health experts say manganese poisoning is a toxic condition resulting from chronic exposure to manganese and it is manly manifested as a neurological disorder with symptoms that include traumas, difficult in walking and facial mark spasms.

The school is still surrounded by piles of debris five years after the storm swept through.