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In the Senegalese language, a "Talibé" is a student who learns Koran in a specific school named "Daara". He is placed under the tutelage of the teacher by his father. According to the map of Koranic schools in Dakar, around 60,000 talibé children can be found in thousands of Daara schools in Dakar.

These children don’t go to school, are often very poorly dressed and some of them have untreated illnesses and injuries. They eat food scrounged here and there from different places, sometimes sleep in the street and are forced by their marabout to bring in a fixed sum of money every day. This sight, although disconcertingly normal, nonetheless flouts these children’s most basic human rights.

In fact, Article 4 of the 1959 Declaration of the Rights of the Child stipulates that “the child must benefit from social security; he or she must be able to grow up and develop in a healthy way (…), the child has the right to adequate nourishment, housing, free time and medical care” (General Assembly of the United Nations). Begging undercuts all of these rights; rights which are essential for the physical and mental development of a child.

A cruel lack of awareness of children’s rights

In societies worldwide, children’s education is the responsibility of adults (parents, family, community and the government). Accordingly, Senegal largely agrees to take on this duty, and recognizes it as a right. In its 2001 Constitution, which has been changed many times, the Senegalese constituent stipulates that “all children, boys and girls, in all areas of national territory, have the right to go to school.

However, the phenomenon of begging remains very much present in Senegal and creates a barrier to schooling, in spite of the existence of many schools, public and private, designed to fulfil the right to education.

Child beggars are also exposed to all sorts of dangers to their physical and moral well-being, not to mention the care and good nourishment they do not get to experience. They are constantly in a vulnerable position, in spite of all the state measures taken by the Committee for the Protection of Children – la Cellule d’Appui à la Protection de l’Enfance (C.A.P.E) – based in Dakar, and the social initiatives put in place to eradicate begging amongst children.

A form of child trafficking

Certain people try to justify begging; particularly those who benefit from it. In fact, young beggars are sent out into the street either by their marabout or their parents or guardians. Since they don’t have the means to feed these children, the root cause of the situation is therefore poverty. The people responsible for protecting them and tending to their needs are actually exploiting them.

Begging is a new form of human slavery which society seems to allow and tolerate – all in the name of a religion which, in principle, fiercely protects fundamental human rights .

Illetraid International aim to help those children to go to school by buying their school supplies and ensuring them regular food and clean place to live.

If you wish to contribute to this project, you can make a transfer to the order of M. CHEIKH AHMET TIDIANE KANE, Chairman of ILLETRAID INTERNATIONAL
IBAN : sn08 sn01 0014 2302 0105 9000 8296 and/or directly join the organization to Maristes 2, N°3734 Espaces residence. TELEPHONE +221773951914, Email. illetraidinternational@gmail.com

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