{"id":5333,"date":"2019-01-18T22:20:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T22:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/?p=5333"},"modified":"2019-01-28T17:47:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T17:47:52","slug":"mali-250-000-children-will-benefit-from-an-inclusive-education-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/mali-250-000-children-will-benefit-from-an-inclusive-education-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali: 250 000 children will benefit from an inclusive education program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Inclusive Education Support Program will be implemented in more than 6 000 schools in Mali. About 1.2 million children between the ages of 7 and 12 are out of the school system in Mali, nearly 50% of the population of primary school age. As for girls, they represent more than half. To reintegrate children into the education system, the Malian government and its partners have just launched a program that will be implemented in 6 000 schools.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is at\nthe Kodian primary school in Nossombougou (Koulikoro Region) that the Inclusive\nEducation Support Program (PAIS) was launched on Thursday, December 13th. In\nthis town located 55 kilometers from the Malian capital, school fees for girls\nare 750 F CFA against 1000 F for boys. Lacking financial means, low-income\nhouseholds can not get their children to school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the\nfactors that hinder access to education in Mali, there is the insecurity, the\ndistance of villages and hamlets from the school, the influence of traditions\nand social norms. \u201cBecause of the traditional habits here, people think that\nsending girls to school doesn\u2019t bring back much because they are meant for\nmarriage. This puts emphasis much more on boys’ education than on girls’\u201d, said\nSidiki Diarra, Deputy Mayor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

School canteens<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According\nto Diarra, more and more children, especially girls, are currently pursuing\ntheir studies thanks to the support of partners. School meals drive poor\nhouseholds to send and keep their children in school. \u201cEating bouillon rice at\nschool is an encouragement for the kids\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the age\nof 14, Oumou Diarra is in the 6th grade \nat the Kodian primary school. Daughter of a truck driver and an apple\nseller, Oumou could not be educated in time due to lack of financial means.\nToday, she is clinging to her  studies\nand dreams of becoming a French teacher. \u201cI study because my dad says that\nduring his many trips, he understood that education is very important\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sissi\nDiarra, a parent of a student whom we met in Kodian says to have enrolled his\nfour children in school \u201cbecause it is time to fight against illiteracy\u201d in\nMali. \u201cIf you don’t study, you can’t do anything, not even agriculture. I\nstopped studying in the 4th grade. And if I succeed today in the agriculture\nfield, it is thanks to the small trainings that I received (…) Studies\nfacilitate many things in all areas\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Inclusive Education Support Program will be implemented in more than 6 000 schools in the Kayes, Koulikoro, Sikasso, Segou, Mopti, Gao and Menaka regions, for a total cost of 40 million euros (more than 26 billion FCFA). The program targets 250 000 children, at least 50% of whom are girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Inclusive Education Support Program will be implemented in more than 6 000 schools in Mali. About 1.2 million children between the ages of 7 and 12 are out of the school system in Mali, nearly 50% of the population of primary school age. As for girls, they represent more than half. To reintegrate children […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mali","8":"category-societe"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5335,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333\/revisions\/5335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}