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Education, Schools
The need to involve children in raising income, the lack of teachers, and the lack of money available for education and infrastructure in the whole country, cause severe problems in setting up a decent education system. Especially on the country side many children do not visit schools, for different reasons and the rate of illitteracy is still pretty high. Especially the girls have bad opportunities.
Almost half of the villages have a public primary school. In total there are 6 primary schools including a one class bamboo hut and there is one secondary school(top picture). The last is a complex of three concrete buildings, each of them counting 5 class rooms. The school was built with financial support from a Korean Company Bu Yung, however for unknown reasons never completely finished. Most class rooms cannot be used because there is no floor, there are no windows and doors, only one toilet plate in the open (no walls and roof) and one dirty water well. The area is not fenced in.
Except the bamboo school hut, the primary schools can be described as stone school buildings with 2 or more class rooms, very simple wooden furniture and hardly teaching material. Teachers paid by the government earn so little that many of them have a second job to earn the necessary cost of living.
The youth in the villages where there is no school have to travel 3 - 5 km, which in the rainy season is too difficult for many or takes too long. The average distance from the villages to the secundary school is 10.5 km, the shortest 4 and the longest 20 km. This is why many students of the primary and almost all students of the secundary school need a bicycle, which not all families can afford.
rice fields after harvest
bamboo school
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