malawi: Poverty Responsible for Alarming School Dropouts

With pupils limping to school on empty stomachs and dressed in tatters, Malawi may not realise her ambition to increase the number of citizens who are able to read and write. Experts have always pointed at poverty as the main reason for the escalating rate of school drop outs. Many of the children are absorbed in the child labour market to help their poor families earn additional incomes to finance basic requirements.