Promoting Safe Spaces for Adolescent Girls

Dear Reader! Songtaba brings to you great and exciting report about our work with young Adolescent girls 

In our quest to promote safe space in schools, where girls and boys enjoys equal rights in a violence free environment, songtaba has organized activities in all partner schools where an empowered girls club leaders share experiences on issues of violence and their reporting channels in and out of school. At the schools, girls club leaders meet both boys and girls and share with them issues discuss and learned at the club meeting that constitute violence cases and various channels they can use to report and seek redress of these cases. At EP junior High school, a 16 years old girls club leader Inusah murijana told her colleagues any action or inaction of an individual that makes teaching and learning uncomfortable is violence must be reported to the appropriate authorities. She said such action may include: bullying of student most especially girls, excessive canning of students by masters, sexual harassment, secret invitation of students girls by masters. According to her, if any student is confronted with these cases, such a person can report to the teacher mentor, headmaster, class teacher, and girls club leaders. She also inform them of the existence of violence box in the school, where cases can secretly be reported without any victimization, she encouraged them to always use the violence box because it ensure confidentiality. The entire school which includes: school authority, students and girl’s club members were excited for this move and express their profound gratitude to songtaba and their partners for this wonderful education.

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