Central African republic needs quality education

According to a global report, the crisis following the coup d'état in March 2013 has had a damaging impact on what was already an extremely fragile education system. Moreover, "years of insufficient investment mean the country has only about 9,000 teachers, of whom half are unqualified volunteer teachers or semi-qualified trainees. CAR’s only teacher training college offers just 150 places a year (for a two-year training), too few to achieve acceptable teacher-pupil ratios in a country of 4.6 million people."

According to a report, 7% of schools nationwide were being used for shelters, and 35% of school in Bangui were being used as shelters. The same report states that in the 2012-2013 school year, children in CAR lost about five months of schooling; what's more, 37% of schoolchildren, or 278,500 students, enrolled in the 2012-2013 school year were not enrolled from 2013-2014. According to over 1.4 million youth in CAR are in need of education as of December 2014.