Invest in girls’ education for a better post-COVID-19 world
COVID-19 has disrupted education for 1.2 billion students - and up to 10 million secondary-school aged girls may never return to the classroom.
In some countries, the poorest girls could lose half their total years of education. Out of school, girls are vulnerable to child marriage, early pregnancy and pressure to take on more unpaid and paid work. When schools eventually re-open, millions of girls may not reenroll due to harmful gender norms and strains on household and government spending.
Our today's special guest is Chelsea dos Anjos an University student. She shared with us her challenges during lock-down. She says that covid-19 affected her student life very negatively. She can no longer go to school, can't visit libraries or institutions related to her area of study and also her academic performance has been failing.
She recommends that entities responsible for solving the problem of schools, create bio-safety conditions and social distance to ensure that all girls return to school safely.
We need action now to respond to and recover from a looming education crisis. While girls are at home, we must provide them with low-tech, universally accessible distance learning and protect them from harm. We must plan for a quick, comprehensive return to school by setting up systems to monitor reenrollment, gather gender-disaggregated data and incentivize at-risk girls to go back to the classroom.
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