More from the count your blessings department:

Fari Dube, the deputy headteacher of Bulawayo's Nkwalongwalo primary school, said that before the WFP donated maize to make porridge, children used to faint in their classrooms. "In truth, some of the staff are also starving."

That was just a throwaway bit at the end of the piece.

The WFP is Robert Mugabe's lot, the maize they so graciously donated having first been stolen.

It shows, though, how serious people are about education in those parts.