Girls' Education
Keeping girls in school in Laisamis, where distance, household work, early marriage and FGM all interrupt an education, most often in the years when the risk is highest.
- Where
- Laisamis, Marsabit County
- Who runs it
- FAN staff and volunteers from the community
- Works with
- Local schools and families
The problem
Girls in Laisamis face high dropout rates. Distance to school, household chores, early marriage, and FGM all interrupt or end a girl's education, often during her teenage years when the risk is highest.
What FAN does
FAN runs classroom support sessions with schools in the area, distributes sanitary supplies so girls do not miss school during their periods, and backs a girls' football team that gives them a reason to stay connected to school life beyond the classroom.
- Classroom support sessions, run with the schools rather than around them.
- Sanitary supplies, so a period does not cost a girl a week of lessons every month.
- A girls' football team, with a coach who works alongside teachers.
Results
FAN is counting the results of this work and will publish the figures here once they are verified. Until then this page does not carry a number, because a number that has not been counted is worth less than none.
From this programme
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