{"id":29148,"date":"2022-08-17T20:03:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T20:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/princess-kasune-advocates-for-girl-education"},"modified":"2022-08-17T20:25:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T20:25:23","slug":"princess-kasune-advocates-for-girl-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/princess-kasune-advocates-for-girl-education","title":{"rendered":"Princess Kasune advocates for girl education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Keembe Member of Parliament Princess Kasune says educating a girl-child is crucial to Zambia\u2019s socio-economic development. Ms. Kasune says girls and women should be provided with opportunities to improve access to quality education.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Kasune who is also Parliamentary Deputy Chief Whip said the provision of quality education will have a high impact on the lives of girls in the county.<\/p>\n<p>She expressed happiness that government working for the World Bank is sponsoring the less privileged girls in society through the Keeping Girls in School (KGS) project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEducation holds the key to our development if we educate our girls. We must continue to give priority to the education sector because it is the bedrock for the country\u2019s socio-economic development,\u201d Ms. Kasune said.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Kasune said this in Zimba yesterday when she officiated at the first ever Girls Symposium held at Zimba Secondary School. \u201cOur happiness, our success, and prosperity will come if we educate the girl child as doing so will improve and reduce poverty and provide them a better life in our communities,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking earlier, Mapatiyza MP Emeldah Munashabantu unveiled the Munashabantu Sponsorship Foundation where she has partnered with Ms. Kasune, to sponsor 30 vulnerable girls from Grades 9 -12 at different selected schools till they attain tertiary level in Zimba district.<\/p>\n<p>The two parliamentarians cautioned the girls against getting pregnant but urged them to concentrate on their education. Zimba District Education Board Secretary DEBS Rita Mubita said 337 girls had dropped out of school because of being pregnant between January to date. Meanwhile Ms Mubita disclosed that 1,055 girls are currently being sponsored under the KGS project in the district.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. Keembe Member of Parliament Princess Kasune says educating a girl-child is crucial to Zambia\u2019s socio-economic development. Ms. Kasune says girls and women should be provided with opportunities to improve access to quality education. Ms Kasune who is also Parliamentary Deputy Chief Whip said the provision of quality education will have a high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":29147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12,16],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-29148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Princess Kasune advocates for girl education - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Keembe Member of Parliament Princess Kasune says educating a girl-child is crucial to Zambia\u2019s socio-economic developmen ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/princess-kasune-advocates-for-girl-education\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Princess Kasune advocates for girl education\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Keembe Member of Parliament Princess Kasune says educating a girl-child is crucial to Zambia\u2019s socio-economic developmen ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/princess-kasune-advocates-for-girl-education\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-17T20:03:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-17T20:25:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_5-62fd4e93d4c60.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1056\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/princess-kasune-advocates-for-girl-education#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/princess-kasune-advocates-for-girl-education\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Princess Kasune advocates for girl education\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-17T20:03:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-17T20:25:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/princess-kasune-advocates-for-girl-education\"},\"wordCount\":290,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/princess-kasune-advocates-for-girl-education#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_5-62fd4e93d4c60.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/princess-kasune-advocates-for-girl-education#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/princess-kasune-advocates-for-girl-education\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/princess-kasune-advocates-for-girl-education\",\"name\":\"Princess Kasune advocates for girl education - 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