GUINEA: School
enrollment plummets as cost of living rises…
"The government can't fight child trafficking successfully unless widespread poverty is reduced and all children are given a basic education…"
Report on child-trafficking in
Togo, West Africa found that the children “came
predominantly from poor, agricultural backgrounds and had generally
had little schooling before being trafficked. In numerous cases,
children were recruited by traffickers after running out of money
to pay for school.”
Many girls victim of Child prostitution
“have been separated from their families. Others have simply
been abandoned. Most are illiterate.”
“School costs need to be
addressed,” said Ms. Abibatou Ndiaye, national
president of the Federation of Senegalese Women's Associations
at the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) meeting in Senegal
in May 2003. “The public school enrolment fee is CFA 5,000
per year (about $10), a major sum for a family that typically
has several children -- and which does not include the cost of
school supplies”
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