Main Barriers to education
- Poverty
- Rural locations
- Lack of resources
- Quality of service
- Low skilled teachers
- Teacher absenteeism
- Infrastructure
- Overcrowding in classrooms (average of 64 to 1 classroom, in urban areas there are 100+ students to a single classroom)
While Chad recently became an oil exporting state after first producing oil in 2003 and completing the creation of a $4bn pipeline linking its oilfields to terminals on the Atlantic coast, it is still classified as one of the world’s poorest countries, ranking 183 out of 187. Chad faces numerous challenges that have hindered its ability to make progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.
Rich in gold and uranium, post-independence conflicts have left the country with a poor infrastructure, widespread poverty and its own internally displaced population. The UNDP states that 61.9 per cent of the population lives on less than US $1.25 per day.
Furthermore, its geographic proximity to Sudan, a country that has witnessed significant conflict, has resulted in, Chad hosting one of the world’s largest refugee populations. UNHCR advises that Chad hosts an estimated 281,000 Sudanese and 54, 000 Central African Republican refugees.
Projects
Educate A Child Partnership
Educate A Child (EAC) has partnered with UNHCR to bring quality primary education to refugee children in 12 priority countries.