Empowering Girls in School

Dear Readers and Supporters,

Songtaba present to you another update on our activities in supporting to build the confidence of girls through our girls club concept. This quarter, five  girls clubs making of  one hundred and fifty (150) met with the regional Girls education officer as a role model to discuss with them on how to stay focus in school and shared her experience with them. The discussion also focused on how important it is for the girls to take leadership roles and their participation in decision making.

Madam Agnes who was the role model led the girls in discussion of various topics such as becoming a good leader, dynamic s of group management and roles and responsibility of group leaders.

She emphasis that, before one becomes a good leaders you need to excel in your education, Hence she encourage all girls to be serious with their books and should not hesitate to report cases/issues that violate their right to education in and out of school environment to the appropriate   authority. These girls clubs is a platform or a support system to protect girls from abuse and also to make the right choices in their education in terms of the kind of educational programmes to persue in the future.

The girl’s club members were also encouraged not to always stay behind for the opposite sex partners to lead. The 21^st century encourages girls to always walk side by side with their male counterparts.  The executives were advice not to vie for only position within girls club but also those in their school, community and the country at large. As a network they were encourage to support each other to succeed to produce role models for the younger generation that will follow them. Role models like chief justice, the attorney general and minister for justice and the current chief of staff who are all women who started as young girls as they are currently and were able to compete with men in their current positions.

The discussion was climax on managing group dynamic, roles and responsibilities of girls’ club executives.  This was intended to clearly point out how this network will operate. The schools base clubs will continue to operate as they have been and after graduating they will join the alumnus   which is the network of girls’ club members in Nanumba.

One of the key outcomes of the meeting was that great feeling of girls and their readiness to contest for positions in their schools as they presented their actions on next steps. They called for another broader discussion with many other role models. Songtaba therefore will work with the girls leadership to organize an annual general assembly meetings a. The participants were excited and promise to do step-down training for their respective club members at their communities.