Africa Educates Her Campaign with Sofonie Dala. Day 8

AFRICA EDUCATES HER CAMPAIGN IS LIVE IN ANGOLA

The COVID-19 pandemic has created the largest disruption of education systems in history, affecting nearly 1.6 billion learners in more than 190 countries and all continents.

The risks to education are particularly acute for girls who are already behind and who may not have access to the resources they need to learn from home. A disrupted school year will likely widen achievement gaps between rich students and vulnerable students. Disabled girls and low-income girls are falling the furthest behind and have the highest dropout rates.

''Teachers, parents and caregivers are wondering what they can do to help students continue learning during COVID-19.''

For these reasons we have been interviewing girls and female teachers to help us to find solutions that can bring girls back to school safely. 

Today we invited Meury Dala to join our programe and give her contribution.

Meury is a 16-year-old Angolan girl, she complains that the covid-19 has negatively affected her student life. She has not been to school since March 2020 and her level of competition has dropped a lot.

She is no longer able to go to the media library or library, cannot interact with colleagues and teachers, nor is she able to study online because she does not have a digital phone.  Moreover, the internet in Angola is very expensive.

Despite everything, she signed up for a vocational training center where she attends classes in small groups.

She recommends that government officials and educators and development players should create conditions for biosafety, divide students into small groups, free distribution of masks and school supplies to vulnerable students, in order to ensure that all girls return to school safely.

Angola definitely must create distance and online educational systems. 

The coronavirus, which causes the disease known as Covid-19, has killed thousands of people across the world and upended the lives and work of billions of others still lucky to count themselves alive. 

Never before in the past century has a disease wrought so much human havoc and suffering and precipitated an unprecedented global health pandemic of unimaginable proportions.

So far, Angola’s covid-19 statistics show 134 deaths, 1.301 recoveries and 1.953 active patients.