Africa Catholic Schools

Sub-Saharan Africa has the world's highest school dropout rates and a driving factor is that parents are being crushed by unpredictable school fees. When they can’t pay tuition bills, their children are forced to drop out of school. It's leaving many to criticize the mission-driven Catholic Church for not doing enough to ease the financial pressure families face. The Catholic Church is the region’s largest nongovernmental investor in education and has long been a pillar of affordable, high-quality education. With competition from other nongovernmental investors now targeting schools as enterprises for profit, some are concerned the church may price out the people it needs to uplift.