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Charles Pensulo in Malawi

The tech project bringing some of Malawi's remotest schools into the digital age

Students having their first enounter with computers at Nthunduwala CDSS. © RFI/Charles Pensulo

Kasungu, Malawi – Pupils in Malawi are getting the chance to explore technology thanks to a US foundation that provides laptops, internet connections and solar power to schools in a rural district.

At Nthunduwala Community Day Secondary School, surrounded by tobacco and maize farms at the end of a dirt road that floods in the rainy season, students in blue skirts and shirts stepped out of classrooms to watch technicians install a Starlink satellite internet terminal. Solar power had been connected the week before.

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