No education for all means no health for all, no development for all, no participation for all and no social justice at all.

Illiteracy has much to do with lack of resources and opportunities. It is neither a virus nor an incurable disease, still in Africa it is “transmitted” from mother to child, generation after generation, as if it was a communicable almost genetic disease.

 With not enough books, teachers and schools and of poor quality, Burundi will not make it to the “literacy for All” Millennium Development Goal according to UNESCO (2006).



Literacy and education are the turning points for the future of Africa. The relations between literacy and health, literacy and development, social-participation, freedom and democracy are all very clear, what the country and people is missing are resources and instruments for moving forward, for letting the change start. 
What Burundi needs is books, schools and teachers provided with the right skills and instruments to develop and empower young generations, from early age to life-long learning. 



ASASS Burundi is engaged in bringing the issue of education and literacy to the world attention. Like everywhere else in the world, the present and future of our generations start from school-desk, from engaged and committed teachers, start from instruments that can open the mind and the creativity of young generations. Only in this way young generations can bring the change, can develop new solutions and ideas.