Lycée Mahmoud Messaadi in Bardo: new toilets for 500 students
On 10 December 2020, Karim Gharbi visited Lycée Mahmoud Messaadi, a public secondary school in Bardo, in the Tunis 2 education district. Staff showed him the toilets: a single block served 400 to 500 girls, with broken flushes and blocked pipes.
Lycée Mahmoud Messaadi, Bardo
One toilet block served 400 to 500 girls and was broken. Two weeks after the visit, tiles, plumbing and lighting were being replaced.
Original video on InstagramTwo weeks later
By 24 December, workers were stripping the old tiles, replacing the plumbing and installing new lighting. Students posed with Karim in the courtyard on the day of his visit.
The school was one of several renovated that month, alongside El Argoub 1 primary school in Thala. “Any country can only rise through knowledge and investment in minds,” Karim said in 2023, announcing that school restorations were continuing.