While two men try to salvage the decaying white signboard above the sandy entrance to the school yard, the few lucky parents with the money to register their children crowd a tiny reception room while they wait outside the even tinier headmaster's office.
"It is the first day of school but ... you can see that today there are hardly any children and lessons have not even started," Lote Daniel Mondlane, the school's headmaster told IRIN.
