By Aunyango Nkhoma-Dowa
Teachers and learners from secondary schools around Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Dowa have commended Jesuit Refugee Services, JRS for its Promoting Secondary Education initiative that has improved school retention among girls, availability of Covid-19 preventive materials and text books.
The organisation’s Programs Coordinator, Percy Chikwera, speaking to repoertes said Covid-19 worsened poverty levels in the communities that led to school drop outs among girls hence a donation of over 100 text books to each of the four schools and Covid-19 PPEs.
Headteacher for Mndunje Community Day Secondary School, Agness Kachiwala, hailed JRS for the initiative adding that so far seven girls who dropped out of school have returned to school thanks to the UNHCR’s funded initiative in the four Community Day Secondary schools of Mbalame, Mndunje, Nanthomba and Dzaleka.
