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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.