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Sunday, January 5, 2025
HomeWorld NewsReviving Tunisia's college system one farm at a time

Reviving Tunisia’s college system one farm at a time

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The Makthar boarding college in Tunisia appears to be like abnormal however a partnership with NGO Wallah We Can has made it distinctive.

Because of patrons the varsity situated within the nation’s rural north-west is supplied with over 100 photo voltaic panels and photo voltaic water heaters masking the varsity’s power wants.

The NGO goals to rework extra public colleges right into a what it calls a social enterprise.

“A public college remodeled into what we name a social enterprise; is a college that’s power self-sufficient and produces its personal meals”, Lotfi Hamadi, the founding father of the native NGO explains.

“This permits the varsity to save cash on the electrical energy payments in addition to the varsity canteen payments. Furthermore, it may promote the power and agricultural surplus.”

Finance quite a lot of programs

With the power and meals revenue, extracurricular golf equipment have been launched: robotics, entrepreneurship, international languages and civilisations, media, singing, e-learning…

“The expertise I gained allowed me to have extra confidence in myself”, 14-yearl previous Chahed Salhi says.

“It taught me a number of issues, together with in entrepreneurship”, says the woman who desires of establishing a vacationer enterprise.

These days 100,000 younger folks drop out of college yearly in Tunisia.

In a rustic the place a majority of younger folks plan to to migrate, in response to quite a few research, Wallah We Can would love kids “to develop into reconciled with their nation and uncover the alternatives it may supply them”.

The Mokthar boarding college has develop into standard within the area because of its privileged studying surroundings.

“Everybody desires to check right here; we have heard about tons [of students] who got here, everybody round desires to study on this boarding college”, Taher Meterfi reveals.

The director then provides: “We’ve got self-discipline, the intervention of the NGO “Wallah We Can,” the situations are very beneficial and good, and we have now had 80 requests [for students wishing to study there].”

The NGO Wallah We Can rents eight hectares of land cultivated by an agricultural cooperative which employs dad and mom of pupils, previously unemployed, and an agronomist.

The subsequent step for the NGO is a 40-hectare “agro-energy farm” to offer meals and electrical energy for the 23 colleges in Makthar.

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