Education

Educational in Emergency is not only right but in the situations of emergencies it is a fundamental necessity. It provides physical, social and cognitive protection which can be both life saving and life sustaining. Education sustains life by offering individuals particularly children and adolescents safe space for living as well as the ability to identify and provide support for affected people. The above is a picture of school children being taught under a tree; this is obviously not conducive for effective teaching and learning. The village lacks classrooms, either permanent or temporary, to accommodate the young children who are definitely very eager to learn. During the rainy season studies can not be conducted and children are forced to remain at home. What is worse, a lot of parents have not embraced the idea of education, so there are a lot of children who have reached school going age but have not yet been enrolled into any kind of school. The Somali communities of the three districts (Jowhar, Ballad and Mahaday) have had adverse effects of ethnic strife and an absolute distraction of all amenities through the current and previous insurgency; these have deprived the majority of the middle shabelle children of their right to Education.

Together with the building of schools, wocca is also involved in the water and sanitation part of this. It is important to raise class attendance as much as possible by reducing infection rates caused by water borne diseases and poor hygiene. So hygiene awareness and the construction of latrines are part of wocca’s education program.

Objectives in Education

• Build and rehabilitate temporary as well as permanent primary schools in the target areas.
• Increase access to primary education as well as curriculum improvement.
• Provision of salary to the teachers for sustainable purposes.
• Increase attendances in school by increasing WASH qualities as well as nutrition qualities.
• Hygiene and Sanitation campaigns in the schools.
• Provide trainings on GBV and human rights to the teachers as well as stakeholders such parents.
• Increase access to water in the schools.
• Increase quality of hygiene and sanitation at schools by building latrines and providing water.