EDUCATION IN MALI LIMITED BY PARENTAL FEARS, LACK OF SCHOOLS
Published on: Sunday 02 June 2019
In Mali, Africa, both availability and attitude have an effect on education, a visiting Malian told a group of Utah students.
Only 12 percent of Mali's children attend school. Many stay home because their parents can't afford it; others are kept home because the parents fear education will influence the children to drop the parents' valued cultural traditions, said Modibo Diarra.
News source: https://www.deseretnews.com/article/165579/EDUCATION-IN-MALI-LIMITED-BY-PARENTAL-FEARS-LACK-OF-SCHOOLS.html
