Establishment of projects to improve reception and provide care for
children attending Daaras ;
Establishment of a Daaras Inspectorate Unit within the Ministry of
Education ;
-Implementation of a project towards the modernization of Daaras with the aim
of providing the young talibés with a qualitative religious education and the
basic skills such as the ones formally acquired at the basic education level in
schools under the Ministry of Education.
20. A framework agreement has been signed between the Ministry of Education
and the Association of Koranic Schools of Senegal in order to:
Strengthen the partnership between the formal sector of education and
the Daaras ;
Rehabilitate and equip 90 Daaras ;
Improve the environment and learning in 20 Daaras where three
languages will be taught (Arabic, French and Wolof) ;
Develop a harmonized curriculum incorporating religious education and
basic skills taught at the basic education level.
21. Similarly, the different State entities directly or indirectly in charge of children
increased the volume and frequency of communication activities aimed at
impacting the behaviour of leaders and communities towards the talibés.
During an Inter-Ministerial Council devoted to the issue in August 2010, the
Senegalese government took a series of measures aimed at:
Continuing with its advocacy among political, religious, customary
authorities, development partners and the entire community towards the
provision of the best possible conditions for the talibés ;
Continuing with and strengthening land-use planning and establishment
of appropriate infrastructure for the development of talibés ;
Improving the laws in force in the area of extending protection to the
talibés.
22. Thus, through the development of religious arguments, the main religious
leaders made public statements in the media condemning forced begging by
children and carried out several outreach campaigns among parents. In this
regard, PARRER initiated a begging prevention project by way of community
participation and a change of social standards in 200 villages that are supply
locations of child beggars within the 4 regions identified in the survey
conducted by the Government.
23. The phenomenon of street children had all along been of concern to public
authorities in Senegal. Government’s unwavering conviction led to the
adoption of texts and programmes aimed at combating the said phenomenon.
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