Waziri wa Mambo ya nje na ushirikiano wa afrika mashariki Dkt Augustine Mahiga.(katikati mwenge suti nyeusi) akipata maelezo ya ujenzi wa maabara ambao unaendelea kutoka kwa Mkuu wa shule ya sekondari kidamali Sixtus Kanyama (kushoto) ambayo ipo katika kata ya nzihi wilayani Iringa, mkoani Iringa akiambatana na maafisa toka ubalozi wa Korea kusini na maafisa wa shirika la world share la Korea kusini jana. Shirika la world share linatalajia kujenga hosteli ya wasichana lenye uwezo la kubaba wanafunzi za ya 200 katika mkakati wa kupunguza tatizo la mimba kwa watoto wa kike. (Picha na Friday Simbaya)
World share country director, Tanzania Kim, Yunsung is trying to open a dry water tap at Kidamali Secondary School in Iringa district, Iringa region yesterday. The school is facing an acute water problem since the broken down of water project at school but he has promised to fix the the problem immediately. (PHOTO BY FRIDAY SIMBAYA)
IRINGA: The WorldShare in South Korea have begun the construction of girls' hostel at Kidamali Secondary School located in Nzhi Ward in Iringa district, Iringa region to reduce the problem of pregnancy to female students.
This was according to the Headmaster of Kidamali secondary School, Sixtus Kanyama school report to the visiting officials from the South Korea Embassy and officials from WorldShare a nongovernmental organization who accompanied the Minster of Foreign Affairs and East African cooperation Dr. Augustine Mahiga.
He said the school is experiencing the problem of pregnancy to girls due to the absence of girls’ hostel where students are required to arrange local apartments hence they are attract various problems.
Kanyama said that Kidamali Secondary School is faced with a number of challenges including pregnancies to girls because most of them have rented apartments and live alone without protection.
He said that most pupils are walking a long way to school and spending about 40 kilometers every day and leading to a dramatic increase in inconvenience and incompetence.
He said that the absence of a hostel for pupils has led to the problems for female students who are submitted to men's temptations and make school environment unfriendly to most pupils to continue with schooling.
In adding, said that many female students are involved in peer-groups and that make the average 16 pregnancies reported annually in the school.
On the other hand, Minster of Foreign Affairs and East Cooperation Dr. Augustine Mahiga thanked the Worldshare for accepting to construct a Girl’s dormitory at the Kidamali Secondary School situated in Iringa District.
He said that the hostel is the answer to those problems, since many pupils with benefits to live and saying mostly female students will be marked by being under matron and teachers.
Dr. Mahiga said that other benefits that students would have was that they will spend more time studying, would receive similar training and protection, many female students will succeed and join higher education.
He said the Nara Memorial Dormitory' is a name where' Nara 'in Korean means country, Nara is the founder of the idea of building a hostel for girls at Kidamali school, but she died before her idea came into reality.
In addition, Kidamali Secondary School's Head girl, Emmi Mkupasi, on behalf of her pupils thanked the Worldshare Organization from South Korea together with Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Mahiga for the purpose of looking for those stakeholders to come up to build a hostel for girls.
She said that the presence of a hostel for girls would help reduce the problem of pregnancy for female students because many girls are struggling to finish school due to many challenges including the problem of pregnancy.
Mkupasi a Form II student added that there were pupils who started the Form I together but left school because of the pregnancy because many students have rented apartments on the villages.
Iringa District Executive Director Robert Masunya, who was accompanied by various district council officers, including the Nzihi Ward Councilor, Stephan Mhapa, thanked the organization (WorldShare) for the construction of hostel for girls.
He said that secondary school is experiencing a lot of challenge including lack of library, lack of conference hall, science subject laboratories which are there but are not finished and pupils’ toilets.
Masunya said that other challenges are teachers' homes, computer room, and water wells.
However, WorldShare from South Korea has agreed to build a hostel for girls as well as build a fence around it, build modern toilets and digging water wells to solve the problem of water at school.
Kidamali Secondary School (KDSS) is a ward school that has largely been built by the people's power.
The school was opened on 30.05.2005 with 76 students; 40 boys and 36 girls, currently school has 600 students among 368 girls equal to 61 percent and 232 boys equal to 39 percent of all students.
The school has 35 teachers, 15 female and 20 male and it has 15.84 acres of land, it is surrounded by four villages of Kipera, Nyamihuu, Nzihi and kidamali.
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