Research on Ethiopian Education

In order to fully understand what the educational needs of Ethiopia are, I visited the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) website.  Upon reading the first two sentences of a factsheet I found on the website, I was already shocked by some disturbing information: Ethiopia is ranked 126th out of 127 countries in the Education for All (EFA) development index and it is unlikely to meet the EFA Goals by 2015.

 Needless to say, the nation's education system as a whole requires a lot of help if Ethiopia wishes to blossom into a developed country.  However, the education of girls is ailing especially.

 The above chart represents the female literacy rates in Ethiopia in 2004 and 2008. The list of literacy rates on Wikipedia shows that in 2003, the female literacy rate was 35.1%.  Oddly enough, the literacy rate of girls in Ethiopia is on the decline!

This is a trend that GeoCDI is targeting to reverse by inspiring young Ethiopian girls to read and write.