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Education
for All Week
6 - 13 April 2003
All for Girls Education
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Education
for all week headlight activity passed off brilliantly on Wednesday
9th April, at Ndiarème B School in Guediawaye in the
occasion of the celebration of the Greatest Lesson in the world.
Abibatou Ndiaye, chairwoman of the Federation of feminine associations
of Senegal, did the lesson in front of the Secretary of Preschool
and Little ones department, Ndèye Khady Diop. The bell
rang at 2:00 o'clock precisely to mark the start for the 1000
pupils or so, from the formal and the informal sectors. |
Role-playings
on the interest to send girls at school, acted by children from
Kennedy and Ndiarème B schools, and various allocutions
from partner representatives, came later in the afternoon. The
celebration passed off in a bustling atmosphere, livened up
by children filled with enthusiasm by the personalities' presence.
According to the last estimations, the world record of the biggest
lesson -that was so far detained by Great-Britain with more
than 28 801 pupils- was beaten thanks to more than 1,3 million
participants. |
Mrs. Abibatou Ndiaye, retired teacher, chairwoman of the
Federation of feminine associations of Senegal |
On the right, the tiny Amy Thiam (13) has to work to help
her mother who remained in the country. Her angel face reflects
her will to go to school. |
But
it is the day before, Tuesday 8th April, in the Economic
and Social Council auditorium, that children expressed themselves
personally about the question through the evidences of four
young girls. Amy Thiam, Bobo Fall, Khady Seydi and Fatoumata
Konta accepted to testify the obstacles they went through
-parents deceased, lack of means, forced marriages- under
the protection of their guardian angels, Coumba Gawlo Seck
and Suzanne Camara, and of the Representative of the Minister
of Education, Mbaye Ndoumbé Gueye.
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these two first activities, Education for all week gave us a
great lesson of girls and boys parity. You will find the rest
of the activities in the following action plan. The main thing
is not to forget, even after this week, that girls have the
right, and even the duty, to go to school, and that we have
to unite our efforts to reach this objective by 2005. |
Coumba Gawlo Seck and Fatoumata Konta |
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