The school headmaster highlighted the following challenges: . Lack of staff when children need to go to hospitals at night. . Difficulties staff encounter when children have to be admitted to hospital. This is due to the fact that hospitals require children to be accompanied by parents to be admitted. . Poor quality of the kitchen and cooking facilities. . There is a need to build a school infrastructure to provide students with the best quality education. In a proposal to the Pfunanani Special School it was indicated that construction of the new school would commence in 2006, 5 years later the first phase of construction has not begun. . There is a need to provide facilities for students once they reach the age of 18.