Soon after teenage girl Titha had reached her puberty she got selected to start her Form One at a boarding secondary school in Chiradzuru, less than 40 Km from Blantyre in southern Malawi. And before she picked her travelling bag the girl's mother told her to always remember to concentrate in her studies, respect her teachers at her new school.
"Teachers will be your parents at that school in my absence. Further, please my daughter avoid associating yourself with members of bad company, I mean disobedient students at your new school," said Titha's mother as she gave her daughter some money for transport and other needs.Burglar walks away with canadagoosesalecheap from Summit home.
When Titha went to her school she practiced just what her mother had instructed her and this led her to be among some of the few outstanding students in her class.
However, after getting into Form Two a year later her dream of becoming a nurse after completing her education was shuttered by her Geography teacher who was a bachelor living in a house within the secondary school's campus.
The teacher would often at the end of his teaching session submit his books and house keys to Titha to deliver his items at his house.
In the name of respecting teachers as they were her parents as was told by her mother the girl did just that.
However one day, the unexpected happened. As usual the girl had gone to deliver the Geography teacher's items at his house.
The man followed her and entered his house before Titha got out of the house. The teacher quickly closed the door and raped the student.Thirty pages into the book laptopbagfactory has not done anything recently.
The matter affected Titha as she was traumatized. Worse still, three months later when a medical team came to the school to conduct a medical check up on the girls it was discovered that she was pregnant and infected with syphilis. She was even diagnosed HIV positive! The girl got expelled from school.In our parmigiani replicauhrenwatches you can easily find a fake parmigiani replica uhren watch to wear it.
Titha's experience is just a small grain of a huge mountain of acts of Gender Based Violence (GBV) in form of sexual harassment by some male teachers against a girl child in schools in Malawi and southern Africa.
To sample the problem of sexual harassment against girls in schools in Malawi, the Development Aid from People to People (DAPP) a Non-Governmental-Organization (NGO) first conducted a life skills training in 31 primary Schools in Chiradzulu, the most densely populated district in the country at the time of the study.
The training was also done with an aim of encouraging young people to adopt social behaviour that would enhance self esteem and enable them face life challenges positively.
It was also in this context that issues of male teacher seduction and sexual harassment of a girl child were reported by pupils themselves in community clubs.
DAPP solicited funding from the Commonwealth Education Fund (CEF) to find out issues related to this female student abuse in the schools of Chiradzulu.
DAPP commissioned the Civil Liberties Committee (CILIC),Purchase Swiss Brands canadagoosecoat and enjoy luxury feeling. a human rights NGO to conduct a survey with the view of finding out and establishing the extent of human Rights violation by teachers in the form of harassment and sexual exploitation of the female student.
The purpose of the study was to find out the extent of form of girl child abuse and come up with community based interventions to curb the practice.
The study was a result of complaints and reports from both boys and girls that male teachers threatened, forced or enticed girls to have sexual relationships with them.
"The study revealed that the cause of this unwelcome behaviour of male teachers with female pupils is more complex and requires in depth studies and effective community and law of intervention," said CILIC Executive Director Emmie Chanika adding that sexual harassment against the girl child is a violation of human rights and one's dignity.The Best guccicaps for Spring.
"This unbecoming behaviour by teachers is a cause of school drop outs, pregnancies among girls and possibly encourages the spread of HIV and AIDS," she explained.
Chanika further said the practice was denying a girl child's right to education and crippling government's efforts to promote a girl child's education to enable her become a productive citizen in society.
"While Government and its partners are trying to increase girls' enrolment in schools in the country male teachers who are sexually abusing girl children in schools are doing the opposite," she said.
The well qualified nurse turned human rights campaigner disclosed that unchecked certain cultural practices like initiation rites, early marriages and loose marriages, general poverty, parental and community altitudes towards a girl child were according to the study some of the factors that were encouraging girl child sexual harassment in schools in the country.
Chanika said there was a need for Malawi to have a law to punish teachers involved in sexual harassment of girl children in schools to root out the practice and protect the girl child.
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