while legally every child is guaranteed an education many children are denied the opportunity because of defects of the education system and the poor socioeconomic status of the country as well as lack of parental understanding the pastoralist way of life prevents children from being educated within the countrys formal education system and the increasing marginalization of indigenous pastoralist children has been the result of the gulf between them and the children in the rest of the population who attend primary school international research on working children moreover within indigenous pastoralist communities there are many families whose members can neither read nor write however many who are nomadic follow seasonal migration patterns travelling hundreds of kilometres into neighbouring countries particularly benin ghana and togo