Chocked Out of the Classrooms

By Beverly Busanga Subeti | Kokoliko FM | Chingola

In Chingola, a town synonymous with copper and foreign investment, the cost of mining is no longer measured only in profits and jobs, but in lost classrooms and disrupted childhoods.

In this report, Choked Out of the Classroom, Kokoliko FM investigates how expanding mining operations along the Chingola–Solwezi Road have pushed dangerously close to two primary schools, forcing pupils out of classrooms and into churches, trees, and borrowed spaces as dust from mine tailings makes learning unsafe.