Girl at school on River Bank
Group photo of children with SRC members. |
“When flood comes, our houses and school
submerge for several days”, Roshan Said with an unhappy face. After a brief
silence she further said “And during floods were migrate to Makli to settle in
camps till water recedes.”
Roshan is 11 years old girl living at nearby
small village Muhammad Siddique Solangi with her parents. Her father is a
farmer and her mother is a housewife. She is very keen to learn so that one day
she becomes a good citizen. She is chairperson of her school’s School
Representative Council (SRC). When asked why she volunteered for SRC, she told
us “I like helping people. It feels good. My role in SRC is to help other
children’s keep school clean, water the plant, arbitrate if there is a fight
between children.”
“Did your parent’s give you permission to join
SRC?” curiously I asked her. With a bright smile on her face she replied “Yes, when
I told father about my joining SRC, he said ‘Awesome’”. She further said “My
teacher and my father are proud of me because I am smart student and I like to
be at school”.
These School Representative Committees were
recently formed at 15 villages of UC Bellow and Jaar of District Sujawal
(previously Thatta) under the objectives of Schools Safety Project funded by
Plan International. These SRC’s will work as schools discipline keepers between
teachers, parents, and children. SRC have shown rapid progress in bringing back
out of school children and new enrollments. SRC members also ensure school
premises are kept very clean and tidy. SRC members perform duty of visiting
houses of absent children and bring them to school. “We read again and again to
children that had been absent from school so that they maintain pace with us”
Roshan told us, “With that we also get revision of our old lessons”.
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