Due to the nature of the educational rehabilitation efforts in Somalia, several of the following sections overlap.
Koranic schools remain the basic system of instruction in religion in Somalia.
They provide pre-school Islamic education for children, thereby filling a clear religious and social role in the country. Known as the most stable local, non-formal education providing basic religious and moral instruction, their strength rests on community support and their use of locally made and widely available teaching materials. The Koranic system, which teaches the greatest number of students relative to the other education sub-sectors, is the only system accessible to nomadic Somalis. Providing education for nomadic people in the traditional manner confronts the teaching profession with a challenge. To begin with, there is no realistic chance for a nomad to benefit from the Somali formal education system which has never been conducive to pastoral communities which have been neglected for a long time and deprived of all basic human needs, including education.