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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

A week in Bozoum





A week in Bozoum
Life in Bozoum goes on with the latest showers of the rains’ season.
On Monday, we invited the districts leaders for the usual weekly meeting to try to understand better the situation, in order to decide what to do.
To our surprise, about 300 youths and adults showed up. They intend to organize themselves (10 each district) to insure safety and to stop thefts and violence. In the next few days we will meet them again in order to set them up so these “Self-defense Comities” will perform within the rules of the law and in a peaceful way, keeping at bail those antibalaka who still are threatening the population.
Last week I told you of the kidnaping of a Polish Father, Fr. Mathieu. Unfortunately, after two weeks, the situation has not changed. We try to involve many parties on his behalf and we keep hoping, but we are afraid the dealing will be long and difficult due to the fact the kidnapers’ request is the freedom of their chief, a criminal with a long criminal carrier.
Bozoum schools are open. A month since the opening we have the first results that show a good increase. The number of students is almost as the last year, despite the loss of about a thousand Muslim children and the closing of the refugees’ school  (they went back to their villages).
Keep going, keep hoping!!


Ecoles

Students beginning     
Students end


Students beginning   

Girls percentage
year 2013-14
year 2013-14
year2014-15
2014-15
2013-14
Boys
Girls
T
Boys
Girls
T
Boys
Girls
T


EPM 1 A
576
333
909
249
193
442
461
347
808
42,95%
36,63%
EPM 1 B
582
284
866
168
143
311
574
313
887
35,29%
32,79%
EPM 2
501
353
854
349
286
635
544
479
1023
46,82%
41,33%
PLATEAU
284
190
474
193
165
358
325
300
625
48,00%
40,08%
St MICHEL
239
182
421
152
124
276
269
214
483
44,31%
43,23%
MARTYRS
35
17
52
20
17
37
42
33
75
44,00%
32,69%
BAKANDJA
338
374
712
200
131
331
432
358
790
45,32%
52,53%
DEPLACES
320
250
570
320
300
620
0
0
0

43,86%
total
2875
1983
4858
1651
1359
3010
2647
2044
4691
43,57%
40,82%








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