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/ 7 March 2006

Education for all not yet all-embracing

"Our biggest problem is that we have no school; none of the children can study," says Edmond Tadahy, as his five-year-old daughter clambers across his lap. The kitchen in the home of this father of five, located in a remote village in north-eastern Madagascar, is filled with the acrid smoke of roasting coffee. On this vast Indian Ocean island, stories like Tadahy’s are common.