Photo Credit: Refugees International
10/27/2006

At one settlement all children over six attend school. At another settlement of 1,700 just over 50 of the children are reported to be attending school. A girl who didn’t know her age said she was sent back from school because she didn’t have supplies. Another girl said she had never met a Mauritanian teacher, but hoped one day to become one. A 13-year-old boy told RI he would like to be a teacher but his job grinding grain and finding water made it hard to study. He had no birth certificate or refugee document. “I want to be helped with my documents,” he said, since that might give him access to public education.