Online Reporter
Lovemore Dube
FEMALE teachers in Matabeleland North province are sleeping in the same hostels with girls to protect and monitor them whenever they are at sporting events. https://youtu.be/snQJMTagsxQ
This was disclosed by Anna Magaya, the headmistress of Sipepa Secondary School who is the Matabeleland North National Association of Secondary School Heads (NASH) vice secretary at a schools athletics event in Bubi District.
She says NASH has upped the game in ensuring that girls are provided with security and are able to take part in sport without fear.
“As a lady I am very particular about the safety of the Girl Child. As mother of all the girls of all in the seven districts I am very careful about the safety and welfare of the Girl Child,” said Magaya.
She said in each of the teams and districts there is always a chaperone traveling to take care of girls.
She emphasized that they provide girls with their feminine needs which include sanitary wear and painkillers.
Magaya said teachers sleep in the same rooms with girls for security and health needs.
She said where they camp they count on security and Zimbabwe Republic Police details for the girls safety.
A number of organisations now emphasize on safeguarding to ensure a safer environment in sport for the girls and other vulnerable groups like children with disabilities.
Recently 40 practitioners in Zimbabwe completed an international course on safeguarding run by an international organisation and the Sport and Recreation Commission.
