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Lockdown Imposed After Gunfire Reported in High School In US’s Georgia: Police

04 Sep 2024

An active shooting situation is unfolding at a high school in Georgia, USA. Police and emergency responders have been dispatched to the scene, and the surrounding area is under lockdown. Students have been evacuated, but reports indicate that the shooter remains at large. Local media report casualties, with one person...

Dignity denied as more than 3,000 schools in South Africa still use pit toilets

23 May 2023

At a high school in rural northern South Africa, more than 300 students and their teachers share three toilets, and that woefully lopsided figure isn’t the worst problem. The three toilets are pit latrines, effectively 10-feet-deep holes in the ground that students line up during a lunch break to use....