Encouraging Girls Education in Warrap State.

Before I could start doing anything by myself, I will need to team up with members within this group to initiate and build a community resource center for various activities to enhance, support, and empower girls & women. That’s in respect to make a strong network and more common ground for ideas from different areas. Importantly, continuing to be a teacher in school is a key aspect to encourage girls’ education as a role model. My presence in Emmy Robbins primary school was very important according to the positive way communities respond and the support they show all the time. My support to those girls was visual. I have some girls in (P8)come to my house every Saturday to just chat in a general sense about education and its benefits, encouraging them to finish high school for several reasons they can just understand. They know our Governor is a woman, many women are ministers and MPs at the state and national level.

I witness a situations where some families refuse to take their daughters to a school where there is no female teachers in a fear that their daughters may be impregnated since no a single woman to talk to both of them the girls and teachers. Girls also fear such schools saying that teachers beat them hardly than boys. However, after I go to Warrap, those are things I need to put in place first. I will need to meet all the female leaders including Governor Madam Nyandeng to have a possible means of meeting these girls regularly to encourage them. Aware them of importance of education in their communities as women, on health wise, and about their own rights in the society. Apart from that, weekly programs on girl’s education and empowerment will be held at the state radio, hosted by the female ministers and us the groups in collaboration with the Women Union members/office.

 Our community in Warrap have already got a strong passion that girls have more benefits than what the cultures says about them. The how to maintain and retain those few girls in schools, is to create a variety of programs that will engage them and keep them positive about life and busy as well. This include evening classes and recreational activities where they will be engaged in some competitions, and those who win, will be given gifts. Inside school, activities and supportive programs like distribution of school clothes, shoes, bags and other small needs for girls will be provided as these are part of problems hindering girls to go to school. And we already have such programs and it was actually attractive to many girls. Many families were also happy about that.