Education and Equality
Come to Bossaso to meet Jabarte and his sister, Amina.
Jabarte's Day
"I go early in the morning to my Koranic school. After that I come home for breakfast and then go to primary school."
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"I like playing football with my classmates; or reading my schoolbooks. Sometimes I fetch water for my family. When I grow up I'd like to go on to a university and learn medicine." |
Amina's Day
"I don't go to school. Mummy can't afford to send me. Daddy died and we are very poor. I have to help mother at home. I wash and cook and clean, prepare the breakfast and lunch and wash the dishes." |
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"I help mummy sell charcoal. I would like to go to school. If I went to school, perhaps I would find well-paid work." |
Activity
Look at these pictures.
Why do you think Jabarte can go to school and not Amina?
How can both have an education?
In an ideal world, what life would you like Amina to have?
What do you think will happen to Jabarte when he grows up?
Food for Thought
"The real solution is for the girls to be free from doing all the housework. We need the fathers and brothers to join in and help. They need to allow girls to go to school." |
Hawa Isse Mohammed
with her friend, Fatima Handulle. |
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"The child's first teacher is her mother. If a mother has been educated she will take better care of her family and herself. Education is the key to our development."
"It is very important that the children have a good education. Young people need training to prepare them to do useful work." |
What do you think?
Do you think education is good for you? Yes or No
Should boys and girls both go to primary school? Yes or No
Should boys also help in the home? Yes or No
"Girls and boys have equal rights to education"
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
