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Al Jazeera
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Zachariah Mushawatu

Why boarding schools for toddlers are gaining popularity in Lesotho

Children attend class at the Child Guidance Center (CGC) school in Maseru, Lesotho [Courtesy of Child Guidance Center]

Maseru, Lesotho – It’s a bright, cloudless day in Maseru and within the confines of a small green-and-white-fenced compound, about a dozen children in yellow school uniforms – many of them toddlers – run around.

A middle-aged woman saunters through the school’s gate. All of a sudden, the children stop playing and rush forward, swarming her like a bike of bees. She complains good-naturedly that she is tired but this doesn’t stop her from hugging the little ones. It’s almost like she is their mother.

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