The BREDA director who was speaking at a press conference in Dakar, Senegal at the end of fourth African international Conference on Early Childhood Development said Africans spend so much on irrelevant things. She revealed that they will start a political and social dialogue to avoid African people trap in their mind set that is all about money before they can develop the child.

Ndong Jatta, said spending on a child between Zero and eight years guarantees the child‘s effective performance in school. ‘You spend based on need s, we lose over 70 percent of our children enrolled in our primary schools because they are not able to learn, they not performing and they are failing is not only because the children are stupid but the children lack a lot of things that could have really help’ she disclosed.

She called for a special African Union Summit on Early Childhood development to enable heads of states learned about the research in Africa, which said is a major problem affecting early childhood development (ACD) IN Africa.

The BREDA boss said ‘Scientist has conducted a lot of research to inform people how we raise children and prepared them for success. Communicate is key in their campaign and her organisation will be promoting to ensuring that every public policy has a focus on early childhood development.’