If these countries were to achieve universal primary education over the next few years, they would need to hire millions more teachers, UNESCO found. The teacher shortage is most extreme in sub-saharan Africa, where over 70 percent of countries currently need more teachers. Here is a statistic from Akwa Ibom. In the face of the heated and harsh reality ....a group of volunteers in the Akwa Ibom community are providing local and effective solutions to a global challenge through the The Akwa Ibom Teachers' Volunteer Scheme (TVS). The TVS will provide person-to-person, teacher and student exchanges, quality educational opportunity for the less privileged.

Source: Huffington Post September 12, 2016 18:00 UTC