Madagascar: 'Education for All' not yet all-embracing

"Our biggest problem is that we have no school; none of the children can study," says Edmond Tadahy, as his five-year-old daughter clambers across his lap. "None of the villages around here have schools or teachers, except Anjinjako - they have a small school, but the parents have to pay for it." On this vast Indian Ocean island, stories like Tadahy's are common. According to the Institute for Statistics of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), just under a third of adults and youths are illiterate (these figures are an average for data collected from 2000 to 2004.