
Due to a lack of adequate education facilities,
tragedy has befallen the female children who are not readily given the
opportunity to attend school. Lack of knowledge and resources has denied a large
number of female children access to education.
Consequently, the girls grow into adolescence without attending any
formal classes. These disadvantaged
female children have grown to be largely the victims of the HIV/AIDS pandemic
and early marriages. KISUNYA has
recognised the brewing disaster as education facilities remain static without
any foreseen expansion in the near future.
In this respect, the association intends to do a profile of children
currently out of school and work with the existing facilities to provide early
childhood development assistance. It also intends to work through existing
organised women groups and churches to launch a HIV/AIDS campaign and raise
awareness among adolescent girls. The details of this project are under
development.
In 2007 the community initiated a girls secondary school, however, this is still
housed in one of the classrooms at
Emukhuwa Primary School. The pioneer class of students at St
Theresa Emukhuwa Secondary Girls School lacks just about everything that can
make their education meaningful.
Being a community project, funds to pay teachers (mainly untrained volunteers),
buy furniture, tuition books and other provisions are not available. In this
respect, KISUNYA has initiated a donor funding appeal to begin a school
construction project for the girls with at least the first classroom to be
completed in 2008.