UNICEF Regional Ambassador for Eastern and Southern Africa, Tendai ‘The Beast’ Mtawarira has just returned...
Mtawarira has just returned from Zambia, where he highlighted education and protection issues experienced by children and adolescents
The rugby legend and World Cup winner visited schools in Chipata and Katete in Zambia’s Eastern Province. He joined their literacy lessons, writing words with chalk on the concrete floor, in the absence of blackboards. Mtawarira commended the children for keeping up their school attendance, despite the vast challenges they face.
This high level of learning poverty is coupled with large gender, geographical and wealth quintile disparities, for instance, children acquiring foundational learning varies from 4% in Burundi to 52% Botswana. Countries in Africa have made considerable progress in boosting primary and lower secondary enrolment in the last two decades. But while countries have significantly increased access to education, millions of children are not developing the basic foundational literacy and numeracy skills they need to move on to higher levels of education.
“The teachers have very few educational aids, and in many cases, they are poorly equipped and lack mentoring. There are positive trends, like the Teaching at the Right Level programme that lays important foundational skills in literacy and numeracy for children in Chipata and other provinces throughout Zambia.”
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