In Senegal, thousands of children are exploited by their
teachers in the name of Koranic education. Called talibes, the Arabic word for
students, some 50,000 boys are forced into child labor, according to Human
Rights Watch.
“Families do not have money to pay for the religious
education of their children,” Miranda said, “so for them it is logical that the
child himself be the one to finance their own education.” Housed in deplorable
conditions in daaras, or schools, teachers demand talibes deliver daily begging
quotas or be beaten, starved, or left out in the street.
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