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Item Factors That Affect the Performance Of Girl Child in Education(Tangaza University College, 2004-05) Getahun, MuluneshThe study was carried out at Allamano Children's Hope in Riara Ridge, Kiambu District and it aimed at identifying the factors that affect the performance of girls in education. The introduction of the study highlights the importance of education, presents a brief background of Allamano Children's Hope as well as a background to the problem. The objectives of the study were to identify the economic problems that affect girls' academic achievement, to identify the cultural factors that affect girls' academic achievement, to determine social setting that affects girls' academic achievement; and to suggest ways in which of providing opportunities in education for girls. The girls, teachers and their parents participated in the study. The data was collected through questionnaires designed for students, teachers and parents using percentage and frequencies. The study identified that majority of the girls came from poor families and were above 13 years of age. The single mothers whose daily living depended on tea and coffee- picking did not have a stable source of income. Other effects were observed where many girls face the problems of domestic work, responsibilities of homes and forced marriage. Girls were cruelly treated when they refused early marriage and commercial sex and others sent away from home. Even though the girls have a good relationship with other pupils. some experience problems in coping with their body change. Lastly, all girls were in need of financial support, in order to have basic education, which is why they attend school at Allamano Children's Hope. The research recommended that parents, teachers and every individual should encourage and collaborate in educating girls. This could be done through creating awareness to parents that girls should also go to school and be given free education from the nursery level. It is important to organize seminars for parents of those concerned. Parents should delay the early marriage of girls by giving them opportunities of going to school so as to fulfil their dreams in future.Item The Participatory Integration of the Rural Youth in Sustainable Agriculture for Sustainable Development of Kamara Division, Nakuru, Kenya(Tangaza University College, 2001-04) Muchunguzi, WilbertThe right and obligation to authentic development is one of the principles enshrined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human rights. And the issue of social integration of every individual, especially the disadvantaged people, in development was loudly expressed at the 1995 Copenhagen World summit for social Development' and later adopted as a guide by the Kenyan National Poverty Eradication Plan. These are just but harbingers that things, somewhere, were not moving the way they were expected to be. Looking back we see that, throughout history people have evolved natural units of settlement to meet their social, cultural and economic needs. This was the origin of rural communities where people strive for self-sufficiency and sustainability through available material, non-material and, most importantly, human resources inclusively. Today's rural communities seek to develop into more viable economic units within modernizing nations. How authentically this has to be brought about in the rural Kenya like Kamara division, remains the main concern. Contemporary popular development is mistakenly trapped in the local and global confusion characterized by economic, political and cultural dominance and influence that lead to social alienation. Those with no means of survival suffer deprivation the most. Unfortunately, the rural youth lie in this category. According to the Welfare Monitoring Survey of 1994, it was estimated that 12.6 million Kenyans lived below the poverty line. In rural areas, the incidences of poverty were 49%2. The effects of this is multidimensional destitution, which manifests itself in form of deficiency of material, social, economic and cultural needs and rights which an individual, household or community hold as vitally important for their survival. Deprived people experience food insecurity, insufficient income, deprivation of knowledge, low quality of life, lack of shelter, social inequality, lack of essential social services and reduced life expectancy. Since the youth constitute the biggest section of the rural population, they are the most suffering. Agriculture is the mainstay of livelihood for many of Kenyans. Since alternative sources of subsistence such as employment, industry, business and informal sectors outside agriculture are scarce, it employs more than 80% of the rural population. Small-scale farming, whose nature is subsistence (food security and reasonable income), dominates the Kenyan agricultural sector. Among the multipronged problems that face subsistence fanning are ecological, economic, political financial, sociocultural, technical, demographic, organizational and environmental. Inequalities in international trade policies also add fuel to the problems. Individually or combined, these problems destabilize the smallscale farmers and their ever scarce resources. This leads to unscrupulous exploitation of resources and unsustainable livelihood and future. We should not be shocked then to see poor fanning practices, forests and catchments inversion and destruction, environmental depletion, unpredictable weather fluctuation and recurring famines. The crown of all is rural massive unemployment, abject poverty and social alienation, which pave a way to rural-urban drift. Here begins people's vulnerability. Where does the future lie then? Which kind of legacy will the future generation receive; will they be able to meet their needs from the same resources uncompromisingly and live a decent life worth of their dignity if we fail to prepare now? What does all these call for? In fact this imposes a very serious social question for us all. It is a prophetic call requiring a critical listening in order to come up with effective interventions. The possible effective answer is participatory integration. Investing in people in collaboration and partnership should be the way forward. Proper mobilization and indiscriminate integration of the whole local population in harnessing the locally available resources) is essentially important to the sustainable agriculture and rural development process. Thus the youth will be able to act as carriers of the sustainable future.Item Technical Education and Development In Junior Technical Schools: A Case Study Of St. John Bosco Technical School In Lira—Uganda(Tangaza University College, 2001-03) Tikhiwa, Charles J.This study is carried out to investigate Uganda's Junior Technical Education and its contribution to human development. Before further discussion some key concepts used in the study are briefly clarified below: Many people are viewing with alarm the crisis of Technical education and the education systems in Uganda and all over Africa. As a result many questions or issues are being raised because education does not meet the people's expectations/needs. One of the questions being asked is, the education's contribution to human development as a person. Seemingly, all over Africa, technical education programmes are formulated with employment aspect in mind only, ignoring the development of the person as a whole. Students complete their education without skills on how to make life on their own.Item Street Children in Nairobi: Case Study of St.Charles Lwanga School, Kibera(Tangaza University College, 2001-04) Gebrehiwo, SolomonThe phenomenon of street children is almost a worldwide phenomenon, but prevalent in urban areas, especially in the less developed countries. In Kenya, street children were initially identified in the late 1960s as "Parking Boys"; but the problem of street children began to be explicitly felt in the 1970s. The word "parking" denotes the activity that these children were mostly engaged in, identifying and showing motorists empty spaces to park their vehicles and watching the vehicles to guard them against thieves. The motorists usually paid them some little money for such services. The term "street children" gradually replaced "parking boys", mainly because girls also went into the streets to join the boys and both of them now engaged in activities beyond just showing motorists where to park their vehicles and guarding them. Who is responsible for the creation of street children? Clearly, it is not just their mistake that explains their being on the streets. Nor can we say that their parents are solely responsible for their status. Rather, it is today's social setup and the manner in which one has been brought up. Street children hardly have a social status in the larger society. Existence is tolerated but not trusted, as their abode and background are not known. Many city dwellers would prefer street children not to be near their residential areas or places, even though most of these children are not delinquent and are safe to deal with. Attempt to seek better understanding of the street children's root causes is crucial. It is necessary to perceive it in the context of the various contemporary issues, such as added pressure applied on society by the structural adjustment programs (SAPs), particularly is the effect of shifting the burden of costs for social services to the user. This is probably a major cause of school dropout, some of whom sooner or later find their way into the streets. It is my hope that the developing world will soon come up with better economic policies and better legislation that favor the rights of children so that this escalating situation of street children may be curbed.Item Participation of Girls in Primary Education. A case study among Marsabit Pastoralist Community Kenya.(Tangaza University College, 2000-03-31) Desu, YisrasheAt themoment of history of Kenya experiences a continental struggle for liberation of the poor by all We know that many individuals, church groups with Episcopal conferences and NGOs are living, somehow Christian faith in a way that makes the liberation of the poor for example in Marsabit and other neighbouring districts a driving force The purpose of this essay is to study the theme of girl education - ,particularly in rural area of Marsabit. I will critically examine this theme and draw some practical conclusions of the role of young girls and women in our society. I would like to share the experience that I have lived. I personally was struck by the high rate of illiteracy and poverty pastoralist women experience .So this is in harmony with my own future ministry as a member of the Comboni missionary congregation. The charism is to serve those who have not heard Christ and the poorest of the poor. The present situation of the poor in Marsabit is illiteracy. This is a major problem facing in rural area and the country at large today. This question should be reflected upon by all seriously. The study is divided in to five chapters. Chapter one analyses the background of the problem and studies the location of the study area. Chapter Two re-examine the Literature part. Chapter Three gives the out line of the methodologies applied for the research and analysis for the data, whereas Chapter Four carries out the analysis, and discusses the research findings. Chapter Five is the practical part that concludes the researchers study with a project proposal The researcher is expected to draw a lot of data or information from the parishioner's women and schoolgirls who know and understand the concept of poverty and illiteracy in their own reality better than any body else.Item Caring and Educating The Physically Impaired Children(Tangaza University College, 2001-05-18) Mutiswa, AlexanderPhysical impairment does not in any way dehumanise a child but it only limits the child from getting things done fast in the same way as the able counterparts. The important thing in life is to learn to live positively. The purpose of educating and caring for the physically impaired is to support them with tools to meet their challenges. They are faced with challenges due to negative attitudes right from home, school and the community at large. Many people have come to their aid. This is evident in Machakos school of the Disabled, where teachers have worked very hard to improve the lives of the physically impaired. There are other parties who have done a lot to help the physically impaired. There are none Governmental Organisations like the United Nations (UN) and World Health Organisation (WHO), which have invested heavily on projects of physically impaired children. However, the researcher observes that the problem at present is not the finances or impairment rather the attributes towards the physically impaired. They continue facing unbecoming responses from the physically abled people. The researcher wonders whether we can an atmosphere acceptance where the physically impaired are not viewed as burden, and not discriminated in education and care. (this sentence seems not clear)). Further studies can arise as the researcher confirms that the physically impaired children are human beings with dignity and can achieve very highly in educational sphere.Item Instilling Discipline In Students through Educators As Paradigms(Tangaza University College, 2000-05) Anyango, PhoebeLearning institutions have many problems related to discipline. Most of the cases are a cross-section of what is happening world-wide. The situation might be alarming. Nevertheless, a remedy can always be found. This research project attempts to discuss a hopeful way of maintaining discipline in schools; namely, educators as paradigms. It is hoped by the researcher that observation learning is a powerful style, not only applicable to classroom situations, but even beyond school setting.Item The Problems the Rehabilitators Encounter in Educating Street Children.(Tangaza University College, 1999-05) Karweru, LucyThis research was conducted to find out problems encountered by rehabilitators in the process of educating street children. To facilitate this Dada center, Mary Immaculate center and Salesians of Don Bosco home have been taken as the case study. The purpose of this study was to identify the problem which the rehabilitators encounter while educating children who have been to the street. The head teachers are hesitant to admit street children in their schools. The rehabilitation centers do not have financial problem because they rely on donations from overseas. Therefore the objectives were: to identify problems rehabilitators encounter as they rehabilitate street children through education, to establish whether head-teachers accept to admit street children in their schools, to identify the problems which inhibit their learning process. To find out if the street children have difficulties in relating with other people especially in the ordinary school set up whereby they need to interact with teachers and pupils. Also to investigate if the service offered in the rehabilitation centre help the street children to recuperate what they have been denied by their families and the society. In order to achieve this objective, the following research questions were used. Do rehabilitators experience problems in educating children who have been to the street ? Do rehabilitators have financial problems in running this rehabilitation centre ?Do street children experience difficulties in relating with other children ? Does the environment in the centre help them to feel loved and appreciated in the society ? The study used the following instruments to collect the data. That is, questionnaire, observation skill and interview The findings were: that the rehabilitators encounter problems while trying to look for schools to fix street children . The head teachers are hesitant to accept street children in their schools because they are afraid that they are drug addicts and they will influence other pupils. The street children have potential to learn even though they have affective past memories. From the findings the following conclusions were made that children go to the streets because of poverty, domestic problem and orphans from AIDS victim parents. Rehabilitation centres serve as places where these traumatized children are helped to heal the wounds through bandages of Love. The traumatic experience affect the learning process of children who have been in the streets. The research recommends the following: recreation activities to be promoted in the rehabilitation centres in order to enhance rehabilitation process. The Kenyan society to be involved in both offering services to the rehabilitation centres as well as contributing finance to maintain the centres. The society to sensitized on the root cause of street children so that this menace can be eradicated. Rehabilitation centres to join together and construct a primary school for children who have been to the streets, so that the problem of lacking schools for admission can be solved.Item Early Methods of Evangelization by Spiritans In East Africa (Christian Villages and Education)(Tangaza University College, 1999-02) Msilanga, Vedastus BabuThis work, thus, is divided into three main chapters. The first chapter gives a glimpse of the identity of the Spiritans and a historical background of the congregation at large. Chapter two deals with the people of Bagamoyo, their culture, religion, the impact of slave trade and the contact between Christian and Islamic cultures. The third chapter covers the two methods of evangelization and the critique of the methods. The methods were the creation of the Christian Freedom Villages and Education. The Spiritans moved in Bagamoyo taking these methods as an answer to the need of the time; Slaves were set free but they had no where to go and had no one to care for them. Spiritans work with the marginalized of the society. (SRL 40) The ex-slaves were the marginalized of the time. The conclusion focuses on my personal comments on the Spiritan understanding of mission today. Spiritans in Bagamoyo participated and still participate in the work of the Church on earth. She is missionary by her very nature, for according to the plan of the Father, the church has her origin in the mission of the Son and the Holy Spirit (LG. 1). Thus, the Spiritan missionary zeal of living the gospel message, echoes Isaiah's words "the sovereign Lord has filled me with his Spirit, lie has chosen me and sent me to bring good news to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, to announce release to the captives and freedom to those in prison.. .to proclaim a year of favour from the Lord." (Is.61:1-2) But, did the methods of evangelization by Spiritans in Bagamoyo bring the good news of the kingdom of God, the kingdom of universal table-fellowship to the local community?Item Mukuru Promotion Centre(Tangaza University College, 1998) Meheretab, LulaThe project paper was-canied-eut-at the Mulcuru Promotion Center as a study case during the long holidays. The Mukuru project was very important for a social minister to be immersed or experience for future ministry. The project personnel is made up of social workers and community development workers. The project paper mainly deals with the different features that is; its history, scope of the study area, methodology study and analysis, problem factors or analysis, problem, organizational structure; long term and short term strategies, the project activities and planing approach, financial aspect, development of slums, etc.. In social ministry or mission, it is helpful to be able to deal with these issues. The paper will also mention the observation and recommendations and, analysis of the activities. In my view, the two months of experience at the Mulcuru Center was a very cresting one. It enabled me to understand the lives of the population; their strength and their weaknesses specially their needs. This project is an attempt to try to defend their right and dignity by working and living with them.