FOR $10 HELP A VULNERABLE CHILD BACK TO SCHOOL

Dear friends and partners

We have put in much effort in the last few months to restore hope in the girl child. The country went through dry season for six months and now floods and landslides with increased crop failure. We have seen many strikes in schools and parents have no money to send children back to school and provide food and other items. When economic situations get extreme it is the girl child that always suffers because much attention is given to boys. We have been able to bring 10 girls to stay in hostels because they were traveling more than 15 kilometers to school. they are sitting National exams in early November and this is the examination that determines their fate to go to Secondary schools and High schools. We provided 550 sanitary pads to girls in the elementary level. Many of these girls spent two years at home because of COVID 19 and attained the age of menstruation while still at home. They could not get enough guidance from parents and many of them were hiding their experiences from he parents. Our team was able to educate them and also found out that they were not going to school while they were experiencing menstruation. They are now able to attend classes regularly with the help of reusable Sanitary pads. We supported 5 girls with better Uniform materials and shoes at high school. They were able to attend a seminar for girls organized by the local Rotary club. These seminars empower girls and give them hope for a better future. We appeal to our partners to give us more support so that we can support more girls to attend school in a more comfortable environment thank all our friends and partners who support this project.

We have increased support for the girl child after we registered more than 100 school going girls who got pregnant during the covid 19 lock down. We have put in a lot of effort to identify young girls mainly less than ten years who stay at home to look after the young siblings and the parents do not pay attention to take them  back to school. We have held meetings with a number of parents and care givers to allow these young girls to get back to school.We give books and other scholastic materials and eventually contribution for Parents Teachers associations welfare. Many of the children have forgoten how to read and write. we send them to the local church school to pick up some basic skills before integrating them into the formal schools.Our team goes to the villages to identify these children get them enrolled give them basic scholastic materials and they get started. Since the begining of the year we have identified 63 young girls below the age of 10 years. These girls have all not gone to school from 2019 when schools were closed.We hope to integrate all these young girls to the formal learning systems by 2023. Our target is to indentify more than 200 girls. We are seeking for more support from our partners to get these girls back to school and keep some of them in young girl's hostels because they can not walk to schools and some conditions at their homes are not conducive for them to study.