Senegal

OUR EXPERTISE

OUR PRESENCE

COUNTRY CONTACT

Astou Ka

Country director

Geneviève Pellerin St-Amand

Chief of program

Zac Mbao
Parcelle N°3, en face Le grand,
Dakar
Phone : 33 870 71 70

AT A GLANCE

20 %

of Senegalese children and young people aged 6 to 16 attending school are at risk of dropping out of school, one in five pupils.

64 %

of young girls aged 15 to 24 are literate unlike 75% of young men of the same age.

48 %

of the Senegalese population is under the age of 18, and a third of all children are under the age of five.