Education in Chad

 

• Cord run 19 primary schools offering schooling for 21,000 children aged 3-20
• The refugees are so keen to learn that schools run on a shift system
• Others sit outside in the sun for lessons because our classrooms are bursting at the seams
• Girls are attending school in increasing numbers

• We employ local Chadians and 450 refugees who we have trained as teachers
• Our Secondary School programme is proving highly popular and successful
• Extra mural English Language classes for more than 400 students are seen as the road to freedom for those hoping to go on to further study and, hopefully, to university
• The refugee teachers are recognised as being amongst the best in the region

Adult Literacy classes in Gaga Camp are helping 1,800 young adults improve their numeracy and literacy skills, sadly depleted by years of conflict and turmoil. Education is the key to our alleviating future poverty and conflict. There remains a constant need to provide sufficient basic materials - exercise books, pens and pencils, blackboards, mats to sit on, text books for secondary study, geometry sets, water buckets - and of course classrooms.