GUIDE OF SÉDHIOU - Cesie

only one year per cycle. All the teachers of the school, who
receive a small salary, have already a first job in other schools
of Sédhiou. This makes things complicated, because they
cannot dedicate themselves fully to Enfance et Paix: this
causes problems in education and relationship with the
students. In addition, these teachers are tied to the salary and
it happened often, because of several financial problems of
Enfance et Paix, that they have not been paid and this caused
several strikes and entire weeks of absence. We should stress
at this point that the school of Enfance et Paix is not a private
institute. Its mission is precisely to support a system that lacks
the means to guarantee the
basic right to education. The
staff could be made of
volunteers because, as the
principal of the school, Mr.
Jacques Sadio, stressed,
"you must love children to
help them." Jacques works
in the school since 2002 and
he receives no salary. This
year, despite the enormous
difficulties that the school
has, 41 students obtained their BAFM and seven students got
their diploma.
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