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Scotland who have also twinned local businesses with their counterparts who are opticians, cafe owners, hairdressers and a craft group. The twinning has resulted in loans that enable entrepreneurs and women in particular to launch
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Thongwe has a poor population. In 2018 the local member of parliament
Charles Tikhiwa estimated that there were 154 000 people in the district requiring food. He made an appeal to the government. Irrigation schemes were being created but communities around
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the second term tests are set and the first fifteen in every class gets a pair of shoes. In 2013 they took to rewarding students with shoes in a scheme supported by the head teacher Gosten G. Makwinja.
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