In our part of the world, the distribution of education and healthcare is shockingly unequal between rural and urban dwellers with the former suffering the most of this inequality. Evidence point that an educated population enjoy comparatively higher qualities of and healthy lives than less or uneducated people. Conversely, improved health status translates to better cognitive development and higher academic achievements. The complementarity of education and healthcare in making life holistically meaningful for underprivileged, deprived and marginalised people and their communities call for collective action to mitigate the various barriers that make these – education and healthcare – less available, and in some cases, completely unavailable to rural dwellers.