The contribution of girl child education towards poverty reduction in Gweri Sub county

Abstract

This dissertation presents the assessment of the contribution of girl child education towards poverty reduction in Gweri Sub county in Soroti district. To meet the purpose, the study objectives were; to examine whether girl education played a role in poverty reduction Gweri Sub County. To find out the relationship between girl child education and poverty reduction in Gweri Sub County. To assess the challenges encountered in educating a girl child. Finally to examine the strategies of overcoming the challenges encountered by parents while educating a girl child I Gweri Sub County. The researcher used a descriptive survey design to gather views. The researcher used questionnaire, interview schedule, observation as primary methods both qualitative and quantitative research designs with 80 respondents as a sample size were adopted. The secondary data was gathered from literature of acknowledged authors and documentaries. The researcher used tables to analyze the findings under study basing on study objectives. The research findings showed that girl child education leads to economic empowerment. This is due to a number of factors like mobilization of people at the grassroots level to be self-reliant through engagement in the business arena. The findings further revealed that girl child education contributed significantly towards wealth creation. The aspect of education programmes were intended to contribute towards poverty eradication. The researcher discovered that improvement in education was a way towards self sustenance and employment. The findings showed that the levels of education for the girls and women was very low and that the dropout rate was so high among girls than in boys this is attributed to parents preferring to educate boys and leave girls out for marriage. The research findings further revealed that girl children faced challenges of gender based violence, early marriages, teenage pregnancy, child labour and discrimination at work and at home. There is need to encourage parents to take girl children to school and on the other hand government should focus on non -formal education and functional adult literacy programmes to cater for the need of women who could not enter formal system of education and who dropped out of school early. Further research should be carried out on policies that promote girl child and women education. Government, nongovernmental organizations need to formulate policies that would sensitize the public and girl children on the importance of education.