Educational infrastructure sets to rise in the town of Basse, Gambia.
Access to educational infrastructures is a constitutional right
Gambian President Adama Barrow is in full support for advocacy groups wanting to partake in the uplifting of the education system in the Republic of Gambia. The country is located in Western Africa and considered as in of the poorest countries in the world, in terms of poverty, hunger, and high fertility rate.
Barrow’s government put great emphasis on educational infrastructures as the key to the country’s development and success. The National Development Plan of the government of the Republic of Gambia prioritizes fixing the education system in the country.
Rural parts of Gambia have suffered greatly in the past, childreen are forced to leave their families in search for better opportunities of higher education outside of the country.
The government’s focus in education is mainly in the tertiary and higher education programs. When higher education is accessible, then more people will have a grip on it, and fewer chances of excellent students to look for it in other countries.
International help
The MRC-Holland, a privately-owned biotechnology company located in Amsterdam, has a foundation that helps striving countries with educational infrastructure deficiencies compete with the education demand of the population.
Currently, the MRC Foundation is in close ties with the Republic of Gambia’s government, in constructing an educational annex in Basse, Gambia. The inauguration is expected to commence soon, and will definitely help reduce the migration of students outside of the country.
According to President Barrow:
The educational annex is expected to absorb graduates from its own program to practice and teach in the institution.
As a native of Gambia, the president saw the struggle of commoners in having access to decent education in the country. This is the reason why his government is trying its best to cut the trend of degenerative education quality and aspire for development and accessibility.
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