Talibe is an Arabic term for disciple. What tries to pass as form of education is only a way of business for those exploiting children everyday in Senegal. What should be a school is in fact, sometimes, a place of torture. Often Quranic schools known as Daaras are no more than fragile buildings where atrocities are commited to children between 5 and 15 years old that are forced to spend more than 8 hours a day begging in the streets for their so called teachers. The number of Talibes is increasing and are more than 30,000 boys subjected to this reality in the Dakar region alone. Children trafficking plays a crucial part in today's numbers. Most of the talibes are senegalese but many of them are trafficked from neighboring countries like Guinea-Bissau. In the meantime, the abusers continue to exploit children without any type of concern of law being applied against them.
