School Dropouts
Jun 30 2006, Himadree

The semi-autonomous island of Tanzania, Zanzibar is currently facing a problem of children increasingly dropping out from schools, says a government minister.

An estimated 8,881 children have stopped going to school and working as child labours. The...

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