Rentrée scolaire 2025 : fournitures, frais, uniformes, les parents sénégalais à bout !
The start of the school year is fast approaching. Between registration fees, purchasing school supplies, and other expenses, some parents are openly concerned about the high cost of living. The end of the school holidays is causing real anxiety among some parents. The main reasons include the purchase of textbooks, registration fees, school supplies, and, in some cases, the purchase of uniforms, in a context of high living costs.
Met in a bus shelter, a fifty-year-old father of four children expresses his anxiety: "I have four children, one is in primary school, the others in secondary school. I have to register them all, buy supplies, school bags, and sometimes clothes. All this is on top of the rent and the water and electricity bills. I get stressed every time the school year starts, because it's very difficult for me. The government needs to give us a helping hand," he insists. "I assure you it's stressful," says Betty Diouf, a pharmacy saleswoman and mother.
She adds: "I can't even estimate the exact amount I spend each back-to-school period. It's very difficult in this economic climate. Let's just pray for the children's success and forget about the investment, even though we know that after school, it's not easy to find work in Senegal. But yalla baxna (God is great)." A widowed mother of three, who came to Sham's thrift store to cut back on her back-to-school expenses, is worried: "Everything has become expensive in recent years. It's even difficult to feed a small family. That's why, when the start of the school year approaches, it stresses me out. I have three children, one in middle school, the others in high school. They all count on me because their father is no longer with us. I struggle to manage their studies with the little I earn from selling fish," she confides morosely.
For a school supplies retailer, business is progressing slowly: "We thank God. But the market is not yet very lively, customers are coming in small numbers. Many parents prefer to wait for their children's complete list of supplies before making their purchases," he explains. The stakeholders are calling for improved school curricula and market regulation to ease the financial burden on families.
Commentaires (7)
cela date de Mathusalem, chaque année les mêmes articles. Si tout le monde paye les impôts et taxes l'Etat pourra à la longue donner des fournitures aux élèves comme ça se faisait dans un passé lointain et freiné par les FMI et Banque mondiale.
il y'a que les gens moins nantis qui te font beaucoup d,enfants et après ils chialent
frais yi dafa meusseu existé ou est le probleme gnak lolene bind rek
Chez nous les hommes préfèrent "investir " sur les femmes et les marabouts ; les femmes sur cérémonies et le cosmétique plutôt que sur les enfants. Pays bizarre !
J'ai remarqué une chose, wa Pastef daniouy bagne kou wakh "deuk bi dafa méti" wala "deuk bi dafa deugueur". Dès que tu prononces cette phrases rek, niou dal sa kaw
porozet page 73
et les ecoles qui attendent decembre pour livrer les tenues pfff straw
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