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Eastern, Southern, Luapula Record High Drop-Outs Number
THE Zambia National Education Coalition (ZANEC) has named Southern, Luapula and Eastern as Provinces with a high number of children that have dropped out of school due to various socio-economic challenges.
ZANEC executive director Grace Manyonga says statistics indicate that a high number of children in the three provinces are out of school for various reasons such as early marriages, rampant child pregnancies and poverty.
Speaking in Choma on Tuesday during a ZANEC organised public forum on ‘Getting back to school Out of School Children (OOSC), Ms Manyonga said her organisation launched an advocacy aimed at encouraging parents and communities to take part in ensuring OOSC’s get back to school.
“Statistics indicate that rampant early marriages, child pregnancies, children starting school late and poverty has contributed to the high number of OOSC’s and this is why we have embarked on an advocacy and campaign strategy to get these children back to school,” Ms Manyonga said.
She said her organisation, which advocates for the promotion of quality education for all, is taking a multi-sectoral approach in promoting education especially for primary graders who drop out of school.
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on October 23, 2014. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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Judge Joe Bidden
October 23, 2014 at 9:56 am
That’s not good these are same provinces that produce some of the most smartest brains in Zambia. … PF should do something to encourage possibly of one my cousins is part of the statistics. .. nimfulwa sana ndenunka namafi apa so
4 corner
October 23, 2014 at 10:02 am
wamona kafwala 4 corner ati nalikwata i church
IF NOT
October 23, 2014 at 10:51 am
sad development for zambia
Judge Joe Bidden
October 23, 2014 at 11:06 am
It’s really not good losing potential bright kids in the land thru dropping out or poverty. TUMFWEKO follow up the story and come and report action the authority will take…. or else I will go there and stand as MP and Chief of Grief my advisor
kasantana
October 23, 2014 at 12:20 pm
my comments please,nalafulwa
Grade Se7en
October 23, 2014 at 4:40 pm
How do you expect students to concentrate with an empty stomach?
Hunger can be found in every corner of the country, affecting two in five children, and this problem often plays out in the classroom. Hungry children struggle to concentrate in class, complain of daily headaches and stomach aches, and may act sick all because they are hungry.
cheche
October 23, 2014 at 9:11 pm
After 50 years of independence!!!!