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Quelle rentree scolaire ...???...
Quelle rentree scolaire ...???...
Posté le 12.01.2008 par lailasamburu
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POUR REFLEXION
We need to address children’s plight urgently
UNICEF, the UN agency responsible for ensuring the welfare of children throughout the world, estimates that post-election violence has displaced at least 100,000 children in Kenya.
Together with their families, the children have been sleeping in police stations, church compounds and show grounds where existence is informed by a host of indignities that go side by side with homelessness.
With primary schools set to open tomorrow, now is an appropriate time to reflect on the plight of those children. A new school year marks an important milestone in the life a child. It is critical in determining the pathway to the future in a dynamic and competitive world where there is no substitute for education and the attendant skills.
Sadly, for those displaced children who should be in school, tomorrow is neither a happy nor a hopeful day. Their immediate future is threatened by intransigent circumstances way beyond their control.
Scores of schools have been razed the ground, and even where they have been left standing, the volatile atmosphere rules out the possibility that the children will be returning home for a long time to come.
Given the violent circumstances under which the children and their families were uprooted from their homes, school materials like books and uniforms have been lost. Reduced to destitution, their parents can hardly be expected to replace them.
And the politically-driven violence has not spared teachers either.
Some of them have been killed while others have fled with their families. It is unlikely that they would be willing to go back to their work stations until peace prevails and their security can be guaranteed.
All this points to a situation where these displaced children will certainly be absent from school. There is nothing to indicate that the government is seriously working out ways of ensuring that they will be able to report to a school tomorrow.
It is nowhere near adequate to request that displaced parents take their displaced children to the school nearest to their place of refuge. As it is, thanks to free primary education, schools are already congested.
Classrooms are bursting, and the teacher-pupil ratio has been stretched to the limit, making quality learning elusive.
It also important to bear in mind that many schools in the violence-torn areas have been turned into refugee camps for displaced families. So the additional challenges arises of providing alternative shelter for the displaced to create room in time for the commencement of learning tomorrow.
Many children have been separated from their parents in the mayhem. This situation is made worse by the fact that provincial education departments in the areas of conflicts are yet to resume work, so accurate information on absent children is not readily available.
Hungry children wandering around on their own face many dangers and are particularly vulnerable to child traffickers and pedophiles.
Children separated from their parents and lucky enough to find their way to refugee camps might find themselves in a situation where they will be ill-informed of availability of opportunities in the absence of adults close enough to watch out for their interest.
The displaced camps are poor substitutes for homes. Stories coming out them paint a gloomy picture of hunger, lack of adequate clothing and shelter.
We are talking of young souls whose innocence and sense of security have been profoundly shattered. Some of them have witnessed the killing of their parents and siblings. Others have witnessed their playmates being killed. Their homes, their last lines of security, have been burned before their eyes.
Besides proclaming their commitment to peace, the protagonists in this whole saga need to go out and assure those children of the rapid resumption of lives that have been arrested mid-stream. They need to guarantee them that they will never again suffer because of the politics of the day. They owe the children this much.
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