Going to school for children in Cameroon is still below expectations
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 Cameroon...
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