OLPC Somaliland

Somaliland

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Country Information
ISO Country Code	SO
Wikipedia Article	Wikipedia Link
Government Support	Unknown
Deployment	None
Languages
Keyboard Layout	OLPC_English_Keyboard
Written	Somali
Spoken	Somali
Secondary Written	English (en)
Secondary Spoken	English (en)

OLPC Somaliland- Somaliland is one of the poorest, underdeveloped countries in the world. The most recent statistics show that the total enrolment in primary and secondary schools in Somaliland was 200,000 (less than 20% of all school aged children). The Somaliland ministry of education hopes to increase literacy levels across the country to 75 percent by 2015. Currently there are no resources available for students to aid with their learning after school throughout Somaliland, and students often go to the streets rather than complete their homework/projects. We see OLPC Somaliland as an initiative, which will aim to improve both teaching and learning standards in some of the poorest schools in Somaliland. We hope that launching OLPC Somaliland will ameliorate the government’s target to increase literacy and numeracy rates of school-aged children.