Still don't have sewing machine, so I have been doing research on the availability of computers, digital technology, and other forms of media that girls in Africa have available to them. Also what
prevents girls from staying in school and becoming empowered and breaking the normal rules of girls and their role in society.
Girls remain woefully outnumbered in African
schools. They make up nearly 60 percent of the children who should be in school
but in fact don't attend. Part of the problem is economic, but much of the
reason remains rooted in societies that undervalue girls and, in some cases,
abuse them. These problems are prevalent in Malawi, but there's some progress
as well.
In Africa, it's said if you educate a man, you
educate an individual. When you educate a woman, you educate a nation. Still,
in Africa, two-thirds of the children who should be in school but are not are
girls. Part of the problem is economic and part resulting from a society only
beginning to focus on the needs of girls.
The problem of girls' education is an issue in most
countries in Africa, indeed, in developing countries. Because of the low status
of women in our societies, I think the girls' education is not always valued.
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