A Thought About Equal Gender Access for Affiliated Schools
July 18th, 2009
This article in Irin just came out highlighting how stubborn the issue of access for girls is in African schools. Unicef has focused for years on the problem of fewer girls in school than boys.
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?Reportid=85255
There are a lot of complicated reasons why this phenomena is so difficult to address but we are working on it.
WCR has tried to be very sensitive in our training to stress the importance of equal access. In 2003-2005 we also wrote a large grant to Camfed ( www.camfed.org ) to support that goal.
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