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SOCIO-CULTURAL IS AN HINDRANCE TO GIRL CHILD EDUCATION





Girl child education, the universal remedy of poverty, family disorganization and societal true development has suffered several sets backs over the years due to socio-cultural and economic factors. 

The statement was made yesterday by the acting Kilolo District Executive Director (DED), Jasphone Mukungu who doubles as a district planning officer during the handed over 28 tablets (smart phones), to 24 mentor teachers and four (4) Camfed district committees (CDCs) respectively. 

He said that education is very important for every child whether boy or girl. It is sad that some communities still discriminate against the education of the girl child. 

An African proverb says, “If we educate a boy, we educate one person. If we educate a girl, we educate a family – and a whole nation.” 

Mukungu noted that by sending a girl to school, she is far more likely to ensure that her children also receive an education. As many claim, investing in a girl’s education is investing in a nation. 

He said that government in collaboration with other stakeholders were making sure that girls were not marginalized by the society in terms providing education, adding the government making sure the challenges that girls and women  face are no longer exist . 

He said that information is power by using the Smart phones by mentors’ teachers and CDCs will help reduce the challenges girls face in schools by recording child girl abuse because once the incident happen immediately will be reported to the relevant authority with evidence. 

The acting DED adding that by the end 21st century all the offices will be paperless that means computers and other technological devices like smart phones will used in recording data. 

On her part, the District Programme Coordinator (DPC) Neema Msemwa said the project of smart phones to mentors teachers by Campaign for Female education (Camfed) was aimed to reach twenty-five (24) public secondary schools in Kilolo district, Iringa region. 

She said that the main objective of enabling mentors teachers and Camfed district committees to make available the information of girls supported the programme (Camfed) is recorded in the tablets and later on reach headquarters of Camfed. 

Msemwa said that mentors teachers were given a five days refresher training held at Kilolo secondary school on the role of teacher mentor to support children and to live students and make them be open to teacher mentor. 

The Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED) helps girls from form one to form six and eventually join higher learning education for girls from poor families with the aim of eliminating them from poverty. By Friday Simbaya, Kilolo 



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