Going to school for children in Cameroon is still below expectations

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This is as real as schooling can get for children in most remote villages of Cameroon, especially in the three Northern Regions of the country. Schooling effectively depends on the weather here, as during the rainy season, such classes are drenched in water. Most of the kids, whose parents are subsistence farmers, often miss classes, on account of their having to assist their parents on farmlands, or in cattle rearing.
The majority of the teaching staff on their part are employed by parents, who often pay in cash or in kind, such as the offering of farm produce to the school.
On a meagre salary of ten thousand CFA francs per month, the teachers barely get by, relying on their zeal and dedication to fulfill their mission. They say the satisfaction of imparting to the youngsters much needed education is the most powerful galvanising factor, that keeps them going, and little schools such as these thriving. It is the wish of such schools' officials that the Cameroonian government pays more attention to their needs and adress their plight, including the provision of decent latrines for proper disposal of human waste, and safe sources of potable water, so the learning environment can be rendered more condusive, for a more performant educational system.
Thankfully, schemes are being put in place that would bring education, at least at the primary level, within the reach of disadvantaged children, such as those of workers serving in Traditional palaces.

Under such schemes, the school fees and other school needs of these children would be taken care of for a specified period, say, of three years. But the question remains. What next for these youngsters, beyond the specified period, given their parents can hardly meet up to their needs? 
Educational experts strongly advocate for a more productive and sustainable corrective plan of action, that would shield youths from the uncertainties of an uneducated life. For, as the famous dictum goes, If you think Education is Expensive, Try Ignorance.

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