{"id":69239,"date":"2018-09-11T10:27:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T08:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=69239"},"modified":"2018-09-11T10:27:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T08:27:21","slug":"oxfam-fights-to-retain-girls-in-secondary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/09\/11\/oxfam-fights-to-retain-girls-in-secondary-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxfam fights to retain girls in secondary school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Faith Kamtambe: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_68502\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68502\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/girl-students.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-68502\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/girl-students-300x134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/girl-students-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/girl-students-768x342.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/girl-students.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AT RISK \u2013 Girl students<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Oxfam, an international charitable organisation, has said there is need to intensify efforts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/37-girls-secure-scholarships-in-dowa\/\">keeping girls in school<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oxfam Deputy Country Director, Lingalireni Mihowa, has said using mother groups, community counsellors and male champions at the community level can help stakeholders achieve the goal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThrough the male champions, the project is facilitating platforms for men and boys to challenge prevailing concepts of masculinity, gender, stereotypes to accept change and transition to become champions for girls\u2019 rights to education,\u201d<\/em> Mihowa said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-britain-oxfam\/oxfam-to-set-up-independent-commission-to-review-practices-idUSKCN1G00E7\">Oxfam<\/a> is implementing a programme which seeks to increase enrollment, retention and completion to, at least secondary school for, girls and vulnerable students.<\/p>\n<p>Mihowa said the European Union-funded project, which is being implemented in collaboration with Girls Empowerment Network and Centre for Alternatives for Victimised Women and Children, is targeting 12 community day secondary schools (CDSS) in six districts.<\/p>\n<p>In Kasungu, the project is benefitting 240 students by providing school fees, bicycles for learners who cover long distances and school uniforms among other basic needs.<\/p>\n<p>One of the beneficiaries, Jessie Nkhoma, a form four student at Chilanga CDSS in Kasungu, said the project has helped her to remain in school.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI was not going to school because my parents could not see the importance of sending me to school.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWith this project, I believe my dream of becoming a nurse will be fulfilled as the project is giving us everything needed by a student,\u201d<\/em> Nkhoma said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Faith Kamtambe: Oxfam, an international charitable organisation, has said there is need to intensify efforts of keeping girls in school. Oxfam Deputy Country Director, Lingalireni Mihowa, has said using mother groups, community counsellors and male champions at the community level can help stakeholders achieve the goal. \u201cThrough the male champions, the project is facilitating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69243,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69239\/revisions\/69243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}