00:00How difficult is it combining both school work and in-house chores?
00:12Some girls in my community are facing more challenges, more than anything,
00:16because some of them have to go and sell early in the morning,
00:19some too have to help their parents sell food and other things.
00:22So I think it's been difficult to cope both school and house chores together.
00:26But for me, one thing I find most difficult is that I have to wash utensils
00:29before I set off to school, and sometimes it's going to make me be late.
00:33Do you think parents and teachers understand the pressure that comes with combining both?
00:38Some teachers do not understand because they feel weird as students feel lazy to come to school early,
00:43but also when they come home, our parents think we oversleep,
00:46so they have to come and wake us up to get to school.
00:49So I think teachers and also parents do not understand what we kids are going through,
00:54combining both house activities and school activities together.
00:58What keeps you motivated to go to school despite all the challenges that you mentioned?
01:02And is it the same thing for girls your age?
01:05Looking at how my parents are struggling with the paying of my school fees
01:09and also today advising me to focus on my books, it motivates me more to do more than they expect from me.
01:15And also basically due to the dream I have in future to become a fashion designer,
01:21I think they are motivating me more to take my books and academic work seriously.
01:26Now coming back to your school, what do you like about the school and what annoys you most about it?
01:31Talk about facilities in my school. I wish we had a bigger playing ground for volleyball,
01:36and also to I wish we had an ultra-modern library in which the students can go in and learn,
01:42and also to have a Wi-Fi that would help us search for some vocabulary words we do not understand.
01:48Our school doesn't have CCTV cameras in her classroom,
01:51so sometimes some people can just bash into their classrooms and take things that does not belong to them.
01:57What would you like to tell teenagers your age who are also in the school?
02:01Advise teenagers of my age in my community take their books and academic work seriously
02:06to help them achieve their dreams and aspirations in life.
02:11Girls my age face a lot of challenges, combining both house chores and then school work.
02:17Do you find the same issue with your students?
02:19We do have challenges. Sometimes they are late to school, you ask them and they say that they were washing,
02:24they are doing that, and most of them stay with their relatives, not their biological parents.
02:33So because of that, you are there to be helped.
02:37So sometimes some of them they sell things in the night, so they don't sleep on time.
02:44So these are some few challenges and also financial, financial challenges.
02:53Do you think girls are truly given the equal opportunity when it comes to education?
02:58Or do you think they are still made to prioritise domestic work over schools?
03:03Girls are given the same opportunities.
03:05Unlike before, you see that there were disparities, and by now they are given the same opportunities.
03:12Most of them, we've been encouraging them to take lessons, science, other lessons seriously and others.
03:20So they are given the same opportunities.
03:22What initiatives are put in place to encourage girls to stay in school?
03:26And what do you suggest could be done to keep more girls in school?
03:29For now, we've assigned role models to them, to look up to these role models.
03:34Use our life stories also to tell them that they do stay in school.
03:38So in the future, I think it's encouraging.
03:41What advice would you give to girls my age who find themselves where they don't have proper access to education?
03:47Parents should take responsibilities seriously and also we shouldn't give up.
03:55It doesn't matter whether you are pregnant or there are people who got pregnant and they continue with their education.
04:01And we should take good care of the girls.
04:04We should give them, help them financially so that they don't fall to prayer to other young men or something like that.
04:15Thank you so much for joining me.
04:17Thank you so much for joining me.
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