Through ActionAid interventions the school now has three new classrooms and eight toilets at the school so that girls who in the past feared sharing toilets with boys could be comfortable being at school.

“Enrolment at the school has gone up by one hundred percent because the girls now have their own toilets. They are free to use them without fear of being victimised by boys”, says Anna Ngordya, the Schools Headmistress.

The school has also seen a remarkable face lift, with three new classrooms built by ActionAid to cater for the large numbers of the girls who are now the majority at the school.

Albert Jimwaga, the Programme coordinator says that ActionAid has also been educating the community on the importance of having girls in school.

“This community is very poor and they have excluded girls from education for a long time. We have been working with the community to ensure that girls too are given priority in education”, he said.

Kosuma Hashim, 12, a student at the school say she is happy now to be in school and not to be harassed by boys at toilets.

“Now we have separate toilets for boys and girls. I no longer have the fear that boys will come and look at us”.

“Am happy to be in school too because am no longer staying at home to cook and fetch water for the boys who go to school and play football when they come home”

ActionAid is working in the area to promote girl child Education with the community.

The enrolment levels are up from 432 in 2003 to 668 in 2007 compared to the boys 659.

“We are almost achieving an equal representation in all the classes”, said the headmistress.