Crisis-affected girls return to education
Due to conflict and crisis Scovia was forced to drop out of school. Now, along with other girls, she is returning to school and looking towards the future.
Scovia,17, was out of school for 3 years. “I lost hope of ever returning to school, I could do a lot of hard work at home.” says Scovia. “I joined school again in 2022 under the Accelerated Education programme.”
Plan International’s Accelerated Education programme supports children whose education has been interrupted due to poverty, marginalisation, conflict and crisis to return to the classroom and access education in refugee settlements so they can create a better future.
Teachers motivate girls to complete education
Scovia explains that the teachers are always encouraging the children to study hard and ignore the age gap between themselves and other students. “Other children do not laugh at us because of our age. Actually, they take us as equals.“
Martina, a teacher at a primary school says, “Before the programme was introduced, many pupils had dropped out of school and they were in the community engaging in fishing, sand mining and charcoal burning.”
The programme is flexible and young mothers are allowed time to breastfeed in the course of day and resume their classes. Out of the 31 children that sat their Primary Leaving Examinations in 2022, 12 were girls who had returned to school due to the Accelerated Education programme.
Categories: Education, Emergencies