- Girls’ education and re-integration of young mothers into school
This year, we have been focussing on girls’ education, in accordance with the Millennium Development Goals. Our aim is to improve recruitment, retention and examination results for girls. We have already set up a flourishing link with a local business, Supreme Re-usable Sanitary Pads. Through them, we have provided training in menstrual hygiene, and have, each year, donated pads to all our female students.
We have also opened our full boarding hostel for girls, and improved the security at the self-boarding houses which we rent for girls in the village.
We are urgently looking for funding to enable girls and young women who have dropped out of school to return and finish their education. In particular, we are focussing on the large number of young mothers who want to return to school. Our aim is to offer them places in a full boarding hostel, so that they can keep their children with them while they are at school.