“An estimated 263 million children and youth were out of school globally in 2016 with the highest rates being in sub-Saharan Africa”
Kundah Education Initiative supports the Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all & promote lifelong learning
Facts and Figures
Enrollment in primary education in developing countries has reached 91 per cent but 57 million children remain out of school
More than half of children that have not enrolled in school live in sub-Saharan Africa
103 million youth worldwide lack basic literacy skills, and more than 60 per cent of them are women
- UNITED NATIONS
Pervasive poverty: about 1 in 5 people earn less than $1.25 a day these financial constrains put education as a lower priority for many households affecting girls the most.
Textbook scarcity driven by high cost and low availability: results in a high text book to pupil ratio of 1:11 in reading and 1:13 math for primary schools in some countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Those impacted the most are in rural areas the unseen and forgotten.
High Pupil-teacher ratio: partly driven by high population growth “compared to 2000, there were 35 per cent more school children to accommodate in 2012.” As of 2013 Zimbabwe had an average ratio of 36 students (this is based on data compiled over a 40 year period).
- WORLD BANK