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A photo of children sitting on large bricks while dirty water flows through what seems to be their mud-walled classroom has been circulating on Facebook in September 2021 with the claim that it was snapped in Zimbabwe . A school in Binga – Zimbabwe, the caption reads . The Binga region is in northwestern Zimbabwe, on the banks of Lake Kariba. The claim has sparked outrage among social media users in Zimbabwe. But does the photo really show a classroom in Zimbabwe? We checked. Frequently misused photo A Tineye reverse image search reveals that the photo was first posted online in May 2019, in articles on the Kenyan news sites Nation and Tuko . The headline on Tuko reads : Netizens angered by viral photo of pupils sitting on bricks in flooded classroom. The articles reveal that the classroom is at Mangororo Primary School in the Ganze sub-county of Kenya’s Kilifi county . The photo was taken in Kenya, not Zimbabwe. It’s been the subject of other false claims – that the classroom is in Nigeria’s Bayelsa or Kogi states – that Africa Check has debunked.
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