Africa Educates Her Campaign with Sofonie Dala. Don't miss this episode. Day 9

Invest in girls’ education for a better post-COVID-19 world

COVID-19 has disrupted education for 1.2 billion students - and up to 10 million secondary-school aged girls may never return to the classroom.

In some countries, the poorest girls could lose half their total years of education. Out of school, girls are vulnerable to child marriage, early pregnancy and pressure to take on more unpaid and paid work. When schools eventually re-open, millions of girls may not reenroll due to harmful gender norms and strains on household and government spending.

Our today's special guest is Chelsea dos Anjos an University student. She shared with us her challenges during lock-down. She says that covid-19 affected her student life very negatively. She can no longer go to school, can't visit libraries or institutions related to her area of study and also her academic performance has been failing. 

She recommends that entities responsible for solving the problem of schools, create biosafety conditions and social distance to ensure that all girls return to school safely. 

We need action now to respond to and recover from a looming education crisis. While girls are at home, we must provide them with low-tech, universally accessible distance learning and protect them from harm. We must plan for a quick, comprehensive return to school by setting up systems to monitor reenrollment, gather gender-disaggregated data and incentivize at-risk girls to go back to the classroom.

Second, we have to do more to help education systems recover. In the face of a financial crisis, national governments should not divert funding, continuing to aim to spend 20% of domestic budgets or 6% of gross national income on education. The international community can help relieve pressure on budgets, through coordinated actions like debt relief and special drawing rights.

Don't miss this opportunity, join us! 

Share your experiences learning/teaching during the school closures & the projects or initiatives you've launched to get girls back to school post #COVID19 in your local communities. Your submission can be in the form of a video, blog article, poetry, photograph/s or a song. To check out instructions on how to submit click this link: http://cieffa.org/

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