ARUSHA, Aug. 11 -- ATTRACTED by the fact that Likamba Primary School was perched in an area that is conducive to birdwatching, tour guides in the Arusha region have resorted to rehabilitating the buildings of the old institution.

Steven Ngowi, a renowned tour guide, says he was out birdwatching in the outskirts of Arusha and he discovered some two endemic bird species around the precinct.

But something else caught his attention, the area also had a school which looked so worn out and depilated as if a battle had been fought around it.

“The school suffered broken windows with dangerously jagged glass panes, see-through leaking roofs and ‘craters on concrete floors, with gaping cracks on the walls,” Ngowi explained.

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