Dhonveli School The island school: grades one to ten, three hundred and twelve children, one session a day

The canteen and the uniform shelf

Run by the parent teacher association, not by the school. Ten rufiyaa for a plate, and uniforms lent rather than bought twice.

Both of these belong to the parent teacher association, which runs them, keeps the money and reports at its own meetings. The school provides the room and stays out of it, which is deliberate.

The canteen sells a plate of rice and curry at ten rufiyaa, fruit, and water. It does not sell fizzy drinks or crisps, by a decision of the association taken after a parents' vote. It is open at the two breaks. Children who have brought food from home eat in the same room, which was the association's condition when the canteen opened.

The uniform shelf is the quietly important one. Outgrown uniforms in good condition are left on the shelf and taken by whoever needs them, with no record kept of who took what and no asking. About forty sets move each year. A family whose child has grown out of two shirts in one year should use it, and a family that has spare should leave them.

Neither the canteen nor the shelf asks any child to explain themselves to anybody, and both are run so that nobody in a room can tell which children use them. That was the whole design.

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    Skool Magu, Dhonveli
    Maldives
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