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Jeniba Bah
Age: 30
Home: Podor, Senegal
Illiteracy is like living in darkness, says Jeniba Bah, who only learned to read and write in her twenties. Inspired by her experience, she trained as a literacy teacher and now teaches classes of up to 30 people. Jeniba believes that educating women will speed the development of Senegal and improve the status of women within society.
Filed in: Africa, Women

Women’s literacy in Senegal

With a debt burden of US$3.5 billion, the west African country of Senegal is obliged to spend more on paying its debts than on education or health
Senegal is a traditional Muslim country
Women are expected to look after the family and so have little opportunity to study or work and as a result more than 70% of Senegalese women are illiterate
The Union for Solidarity and Mutual Support (USE) is a Senegalese local development NGO with its headquarters in Dakar. In 1975 USE set up an office in the rural area of Podor and through its projects around 47,500 women have learned to read and write

Filed in: Africa, Women

Senegal

Senegal
population: 11.1 million
population living on under $2 a day: 67.8%
adult literacy, female: 29.2%