Currently Somali people are realizing the importance of educating and investing in their girls. This can be attributed to a number of factors, including the prominence of women’s role in the economic circles as breadwinners and their crucial and untiring struggle to keep the families together and make ends meet with meager resources. Statistics on incoming remittances has shown that over 50% of people who send money back to Somalia/Land in order to support their families are women. Since the past decade or so, there has been a remarkable increase in girls’ school enrolment.
This is because of the combined efforts of civil society organizations, the government and INGOs/UN agencies. The momentum was heightened by the declaration of free primary education by the Somaliland Government in early 2011 which enabled many children who previously had no access to primary education to enroll.
Mentorship/Girls School Forum Training is one of the training that Candlelight conducted for 40 participants invited by various villages under Erigavo, El-Afweyn and Badhan district which hold in Candlelight Vocational Training Center in Erigavo.
The training were completed a couple of three days period started from 24th to 26th Augost 2015.The participates of the training were schools mentor of SOMGEP prioject implementing targeted areas . the participants took the training composed 40 mentor teachers and members of schools CEC’s 28 of them were female gender and 12 male of them were.
The mentor participants beneficiaries were selected/ invitated and organized by candlelight staff in Erigavo office , facilitated for thier participation accomodation and travel expenses. The SOMGEP grant made by DFID/UKAID represented by CARE UK to facilitate the implementation of Somali Girls Education Promotion Programme (SOMGEP) also referred to as Kobcinta Waxbarashada Gabdhaha in Somali under the Girls Education Challenge (GEC) Initiative.
The purpose of this training was aimed to equip capacity building shool mentors at developing skills among girls that will benefit them towards becoming future leaders as well as supporting each other in addressing challenges they face both in school and out of school, decrease or wiped out girls drop outs.
The topics concerned the training workshop was include highlights improvement about understanding the beneficiaries’ meanings and key concept of leadership and mentor skills as well as other skills empowering school girls and establishing Girls Forums in schools, understanding child rights and child protection, psychosocial / recreational activities and maturation menstrual hygiene management.
| Participants of Mentorship and Girls School Forum Training |
