From Learning English, this is the Education Report.
Tens of thousands of students attend and live at religious schools known as daaras in Senegal. The private Islamic schools except only boys. The students are called talibe, and they study the Koran.
Some teachers in daaras also force the students to ask strangers for money and food. The government had promised to stop this begging in the streets by 2015. But the organization Human Rights Watch says there has been little progress.
A recent government study found that more than 30,000 talibe in Dakar - the capital, currently beg for their schools. The students can be as young as 4 years old. They are often walking the streets shoeless and in torn, old clothes.
Matt Wells is a West Africa researcher for Human Rights Watch . He says the boys must bring back a required amount from begging, or face punishment.
Each day there are tens of thousands of boys across the country are sent out onto the streets to beg. They generally have to bring back a set amount of money, uncooked rice and sugar, thats handed over to the Quranic teacher. When they fail to bring back that amount of money, they are often beaten quite brutally, explains Wells.
Mr Wells says the boys often live in dirty, overcrowded rooms. He says they go hungry and receive very little real education of any kind.
In March , eight talibe died in a fire in Dakar. Neighbors said they knew the children could not escape from the school building in which they were living.
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