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Volume 4: Issue 16
Teachers’ Professional Board nascent
CAUSES
Broken families
Lack of classrooms and other school buildings
Lack of pre-primary teachers
Poverty and inability to pay fees
Involving children in cattle heading
lack of land for building preprimary school facilities including
class rooms
lack of a clear policy on preprimary education
lack of participation by communities and school committees in
decision making
engaging children with domestic chores ix) long distances to
schools
unsafe school environments
unattractive learning environments
lack of school meals
conflicts between Community development, education, health
and social welfare policies.
EFFECTS
Children enrolled into primary
education are unprepared
high rates of truancy and
absenteeism increasing numbers of
street childrenlow primary school
examination pass rates;
misconduct and erosion of social ethics;
increased crime, violence and threats
to peace and security
increased child labour
deterioration in the quality of
education
increased rates of childhood
pregnancy.
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Report for Tujenge Pamoja 2008 - 2009
Unity in Diversity Foundation
was founded in a
workshop conducted in
Bagamoyo, by the ARK FOUN-
DATION OF AFRICA. We have
been training the local people
around on how to care for pregnant
women.
The culture of the SAFWA tribe is
that a woman is responsible to do
all the work including feeding the
children, buying clothes, attend
to their needs, and hand cultivation.
This doesn’t mean that when
she is pregnant she should stop
working. She continues working
all the time.
The work of men is to look for
the jobs that will provide him
with money for drinking local
beers, building a normal house,
and a little money for buying his
clothes. If he is happy that day he
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can buy clothes for the family, but
not always.
Since we started training in public
meeting the people are changing.
We have seen that the men are
coming back at 6 pm. which was
not normal for men to be at home
at that time. Normally, they have
been coming back home around
11pm to midnight or even 1 am.
They are now buying uniforms for
the children studying in schools
and in our pre-school. They have
left behind the habit of giving the
local beer to children.
We mobilized the local villagers
to make bricks for the construction
of a permanent pre-school.
The school is finished and in May
2009 children started using the
building.
We have done fifth regular meetings
with local people so that we
may improve our services to most
vulnerable children. The changes
are visible.
We have also contacted Pangea
giving for Global change who donated
US$4500 for finishing the
Pre-school.
We have managed to have one
teacher qualified for teaching
our Pre-school She was also employed
by the Government as a
teacher of Primary school Adult
education Program, which is
assisting us and we have intro-