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| Country Updates 2007 - Senegal Country Contacts:
Summary: The Global Action Week was a historical and unprecedented event for Gambia and Senegal at Kerr Ayib on the border between the two sister countries. The main campaign message was an increase in teachers’ salaries and an improvement of their working conditions. Over 3000 people formed a human chain across one of the busiest border posts on Sunday 29 April. School children, teachers and opinion leaders from the two countries were in attendance. The Permanent Secretary, Department of State for Education from the Gambia pledged that any child identified to be outside of the school system would be supported to go to school. A leading Senegalese comedian, Saanex delivered strong messages on the right to education. Earlier in the week, another leading musician M. Falou Dieng called on the authorities in both countries to spend more on Education as it is the key to national development. There was also another big chain event held in the village of Sokone in Senegal in the lead up, while in the Gambia “Value Teacher”and “Girl Power “Reports were launched to mark the beginning of the Global Action Week. Campaigners caught the attention of policy makers. For example, Fatou Lamin Faye, Secretary of State for Education in Gambia made a statement on the eve of the week highlighting the importance of education to national development and what the government is doing to fulfill that right. In both Gambia and Senegal, the media published stories about education and the Senagalese minister of Education responded to queries from campaigners regarding the quality of education and budget in Senegal in national media. 24 May 2007 Campaigners from Gambia and Senegal are JOINING UP in a human across the border between the two countries near farafenni. Photos:
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