Adolescent girls cannot attend school in many areas, and attacks are routine.
They move frequently, they said, and so their children — filthy, thin and barefoot — cannot attend school.
In some localities, including many American states, children cannot attend school without having been vaccinated against a range of diseases.
One of the reasons given by the uncle as to why she cannot attend school is that it would be too expensive.
One consequence is that children cannot attend school for long periods of time, making it harder for them to escape poverty.
This means that most boys cannot attend school, which explains why Lesotho's female literacy is higher than male, a rare situation in the developing world.
In the most serious cases a sudden, unexpected attack of Crohn's means that sufferers cannot attend school or college regularly or work or even go on holiday.
Her elderly parents and her son cannot visit, her young daughter cannot attend school, and her husband, who suffers from chronic diarrhea, has been prevented from seeing a doctor.
Enrollment numbers are significantly dependent upon a country's economic resources; it has been the case, for instance, that many youths in this age group cannot attend school because they are needed to supplement family income.
In a student body made up of the offspring of hard-pressed country farmers, who often cannot attend school unless they also work full time, fewer than one-third could meet this requirement, the government spokesman said.
