Here in Tanzania, most schools do not employ full-time janitors. We do have some maintenance guys for the heavy work that needs to be done, and there is a woman who cleans the administration building and offices. However, most of the cleaning around the school is done by the students. There is a time slot on the schedule in the morning before class as well as an hour in the afternoon two or three times a week for cleanliness, as the students call it here.
The students are divided in 'families', named after Biblical cities since Lewis was in charge of the naming. The families meet once a week to talk about school issues and offer peer counseling and such, and also each family is assigned a different area of the school to clean.
Today I got a few pictures of the form one students giving their classroom a very thorough cleaning, including mopping the floor and washing (throwing water at, anyhow) the windows.
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