TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY DELPHINE BOUSQUET
Seventeen-year-old apprentice Felix Ayededjou, studies at an accelerated learning programme (PCA) in Pobe, a rural community of some 150,000 people in southeast Benin, on February 5, 2015. The programme, supported by the Benin government and the UN children’s fund, gives children aged 10 to 17 who are outside the education system a second chance by giving them three years’ tuition in French and maths when normally it would take six. The numbers of children at school in Benin increased in 2013 to 98 percent but there are still an estimated 700,000 teenagers out of education in the impoverished west African nation. AFP PHOTO / DELPHINE BOUSQUET