The education situation in the Ivory Coast has significant deficits, and has recently worsened due to a succession of coups, severe socioeconomic crisis and the recent conflict that ravaged the country, causing serious social problems such as displacement, which, in the case of Abidjan, caused a population influx of more than one million.
This has caused a growing overload of the public and private schools. Thus, it is common to find more than 100 students per class, and many schools operate multiple shifts of students a day. On the other hand, the percentage of school children has increased significantly in recent years.
In the neighborhood where the Etimoe school is being planned to be built, the rate of growth in the number of primary pupils is around 10% per year and would need about 40 new classrooms a year to provide schooling for the population.
Given this context, a group of people as part of a non-profit association, with financial support from OFID (The OPEC Fund for International Development) have decided to contribute to improving the education system by promoting a school with a distinctly social project:
- That imparts a quality and in-demand education.
- That is conducive to learning and facilitates social inclusion.
- That allows easy access to quality education for children and youth with limited resources.
- To contribute to improving the quality of education in the country in collaboration with the public school system and private environment.
In this first phase of the school building, classrooms will be provided for 200 students, and the total beneficiaries, after construction, will be 1,000 students.
Once put into operation the first school complex, Famille et Education is committed not only in the efficient management of this project, but also in the transfer of this social model to other areas of the country, so the Etimoe school can be a reference point.