Education for Girls in Africa and Its Impacts

In modern society, education is fundamental human rights. It is essentially a realization that creates various ways to exercise other basic human rights. Once secured, it promotes the realization of other, more free, child freedom and rights. Likewise, the lack of educational provision risks all the basic rights related to human happiness. Therefore, we can not emphasize the role of education, especially girls' education, as a promoter of national national welfare.

Various programs have been developed to improve girls' education in South Africa. One of them is the Girls' Education Campaign (GEM) started in South Africa in 2003. This program aims to provide girls with equal access to education, to make girls safer and to improve the quality of girls' education. GEM is operated by School, Boys and Girls Club and is being conducted in nine states in South Africa. Technogirls is a project aimed at supporting girls to pursue mathematics, science and technology professions, usually men predominate. Girls in the rural vulnerable group prioritize the selection process. The selected girls will be interns of various companies and participate in counseling and skill development programs through scholarship opportunities.

Successful girls and women are essential to promote the development of developing countries like South Africa. For girls to succeed, equal access to quality education is necessary. There are many issues regarding educational facts of South African girls, but GEM, Technogirls, and UNESCO are moving in the right direction.

Education is fundamental human rights and the key to improving the quality of life for people. Nonetheless, millions of women and girls worldwide are still receiving the same quality education as men and women, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. But South Africa is unique. Although there are still many progress in securing gender equality in national education, these facts concerning girls' education in South Africa can be models of other sub-Saharan African countries. However, these enrollment rates cover up the big differences in the educational system in South Africa. Since the end of the apartheid regime, South Africa has been promoting reduction of race discrimination (continued from 1948 to 1994), but racial discrimination still exists. Generally, black girls are in serious disadvantage compared to white girls receiving high quality education.