OLPC Somaliland
Somaliland
| 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.