Africa-Press – Tanzania. KARIBU Tanzania Organisation (KTO) has partnered with the government to promote safer learning and sports for girls in Primary, Secondary school and vocational training centres by playing football in their learning environment.
The primary goal is to create women football trainers who will help school girls to participate fully in soccer with the focus of creating a safe space for learning in different parts of the country.
“KTO is planning to start running a programme named ‘football is an opportunity’ which will train women football trainers and coaches. This aims to promote safer learning for girls in primary and secondary schools in different parts of the country,” said KTO programme’s head Mia Mjengwa.
She said this recently in Dar es Salaam during the education stakeholders meeting for discussing and giving advice on how the education sector can be developed in the country.
Mjengwa said that the programme will be run through 41 Folk Development Colleges (FDC) scattered in 21 regions and it will reach 2,700 girls by next year. “We will cooperate with the Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) to meet standards training on rules, regulation and skills of football,”
According to her, the main aim is to promote safer learning for girls who will be coached by fellow women trainers who can be trusted in the process rather than being trained by men.
She highlighted that most of the prospective trainers come from those who dropped from schools for different reasons and therefore create a job opportunity for them. The trainers will as well be equipped with other skills like teaching kindergarten classes.
Officiating the event, the permanent Secretary (PS) in the ministry of Education Science and Technology Leonard Akwilapo said that the government is working hard to assure that all girls in the country are attending schools.
“It is an open secret that the government is making efforts to ensure that all children access education from kindergarten to secondary school.”
Akwilapo said that part of the efforts was building infrastructures like classrooms and employing teachers to meet requirements. He insisted that the government wants to see every single child getting quality education which will make them get qualification which they will later use to benefit them and be part of national builders.
