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Given the Congo's recent history, conflict along the eastern coast and poor economic conditions, many children are not able to attend school at all. Children at Kamuangila Elementary sit crowded on tiny bamboo benches in a mud hut with a thatch roof.  They have no books.  They have no paper and pen to copy from the chalk board. Yet, they are eager to learn.  There are several dozen children watching from the outside because they cannot afford to go to school.

In a country that produces the majority of cobalt used in computers and cell phones, a single computer is hardly found. A dictionary found in a school is considered a luxury and a single, out of date, copy machine is the extent of some schools current technology.

Internal conflict and poverty have taken their toll, and what remains is a majority of people who function without paved roads, electricity or running water. Political struggles for power and resources have rendered government health and education provisions nearly obsolete. The poorest segments of the population often pay for teachers' salaries, school buildings, and administrators' offices to compensate for suspended government support.

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