She said she saw "with my own eyes the 10 new primary schools in Kasungu province that Raising Malawi... completed this year".

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Take Nashon Zimba, a 25-year-old peasant who grows maize, beans and tobacco on 1.8 hectares (4.5 acres) in Chiponde, a small village in Kasungu district, north-west of Lilongwe.

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The singer received a warm welcome at the Nkoko Primary School in the central tobacco-growing district of Kasungu on Tuesday where she had constructed a school block with the non-profit organisation, BuildOn, our reporter says.

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