Education facilities in Somalia under the spotlight
A new education survey conducted in a number of schools in Central and Southern Somalia
has found that children lack basic essential services.
The assessment conducted
by the Somalia Education Cluster which includes the UN children’s charity UNICEF,
highlighted in particular that hundreds of thousands of students received no food
assistance in the classroom.
The findings also revealed that in the schools
surveyed many lacked basic hygiene facilities.
Education Specialist at UNICEF
Somalia, Rachel Beck says that the absence in many schools of feeding programmes is
“an opportunity lost to reach children through schools which are one of the only institutions
in South- Central Somalia where we can reliably access children”.
She also
told Lydia O’Kane that on the plus side, “education partners such as UNICEF are reaching
an increasing number of children… through schools”. Listen