Education in Lesotho

Education in Lesotho

Lesotho is a country surrounded by the Republic of South Africa. An estimated 85 percent of citizens over 15 years of age are illiterate. because of these findings the country of Lesotho has one of the highest illiteracy rates in Africa.  According to a study by the Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality in 2000, 37 percent of grade 6 pupils in Lesotho are at or above reading level 4.

Moliehi Sekese

With a total of seven hundred students and a hundred students in one tiny classroom, Moliehi Sekese teaches her subjects. Theres 2 computers at her school. 2 computers and 700 students, seems unbelievable. Moliehi Sekese does something amazing when she teaches, she manages to teach the students through technology in on of the poorest countries in the world. She created a project about indigenous plants. A project she involved her students in and even got the attention of the community. She asked the parents of the students to borrow their cellphones so the students could take pictures and text her the data and results they acquired through the project. At a conference in South Africa Moliehi Sekese was one of many teachers presenting some of the projects they have completed with their students. The teachers at the conference were supposed to vote for the best project and Moliehi Sekese was voted the teacher with the best project. The teacher later went to Brazil at a similar conference and was voted the winner of the Microsoft Innovative Education Forum, which is a great honor in the world of teaching. Moliehi Sekese travelling around to other countries to tell her story to teachers and students.