Primary education is free but not compulsory.  Children attending primary school are generally between the ages of six and 14 with many girls having to leave early due to teenage pregnancies. 

Two of our partners have set up primary schools to educate the children in Mangochi: Thom and his Colourful Classroom and Rita and Bolera Palm School. They have very few resources, so we provide them with discontinued reading schemes, teacher training support and most recently, personal protective equipment against the Covid-19 virus.