Community Builders and Anhart
Foundation are working to strengthen sustainable growth in various sub-Saharan
African. In many African countries, the law require that all children attend
primary school. Due to extreme poverty levels and lack of government
infrastructure, there are insufficient numbers of schools in many communities,
and many of those that exist do not provide quality
education.
Below is a
picture of one of the schools I visited in DRC Bukavu. This school does not
have desks, and the walls are falling apart.
For the
majority of children live in extremely rural and impoverished areas, the hope of
attending school is a distant dream, even to the most academically gifted
children. In addition to financial obstacles, children face major
infrastructure obstacles to attending school regularly. A big part of every
child’s day, usually the girls, is spent fetching water for the family and the
school, where it is used for daily needs such as preparing food and watering the
trees and plants. The boys mainly tend to the livestock.
Sometimes the closest water source for
a village is miles away, time spent fetching water is precious time not spent in
school. Due to this, CoBI, Anhart Foundation and Community builders are now
paying school fees to the children living in extreme poverty in
DRC.
The picture below shows some of
the school going children attending one of the sensitization meetings.
In DRC the
children who are not of school going age are very malnourished. The parents have
to spend the day in the fields cultivating, while the children are left home
without any food. With the introduction on PiF and ENP, families are now able
to improve their well being.
