Emergency education projects in CAR’s north

May 31st, 2007 by Kersten Jauer, HDPT CAR

The Central African Republic’s literacy and school enrolment rates are among the world’s lowest. Only every third woman and every second man know how to read and write. Every second child does not receive a regular education. Since the recent internal conflict started, most schools in CAR’s north have either been destroyed or looted. School attendance rates collapsed. Humanitarian organisations strive now to provide basic emergency education in the areas affected by violence.

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