LUCK of funding, inadequate teachers and shortage of classrooms are among the major challenges one expects to find at a rural school. But the situation at Ever Green Basic School of Kanakatampa area in Chongwe is very different. In fact, the school is at the verge of shutting down due to, among other things, disruption from the nearby mine during blasting. Visiting the school for the first time, the ambience brings out its vulnerability. We are visiting the school following a tip off, wondering if indeed it can be true that an open pit mine could be located so close to an active school. Suddenly we hear a loud bang! Almost simultaneously, the ground is shaking and a cloud of...