Empower female SMC members to stop dropout at schools
Speakers tell training course
Speakers at a training course on Friday in Kurigram said primary school dropouts can be stopped through proper empowerment of the female members in the school management committees (SMCs).
They said the primary students will be benefited more from the School Feeding Programme (SFP) under the World Food Programme (WFP) if the female SMC members were also properly trained and their leadership strengthened.
Side by side with meeting nutritional deficits of the primary school going students, the SFP has been playing important roles in reducing the number of dropouts, especially in the disaster-prone and poverty-prone backward and remote char areas, they said.
They said this at the leadership development training course for female members of the SMCs organised under the ongoing SFP and Food for Education Programme (FEP) of the WFP at Char Shakhahati No-2 Government Primary School (GPS) on Friday.
Rangpur-Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS), implementing body of the SFP, organised the course participated by the female members of the SMCs, headmasters, presidents of the SMCs of the beneficiary schools and elite of the remote areas.
Chaired by president of the SMC of the school M Nuruzzaman, the workshop was attended by Acting Upazila Education Officer of Chilmari Upazila Chand Mian as the chief guest.
Assistant Upazila Education Officers of Chilmari Abdul Hamid Sarker and Masumul Islam, Programme Manager of RDRS from Kurigram Azizul Haque attended the workshop as the special guests.
The speakers discussed objectives of the ongoing SFP and FEP, importance of leadership development of the female members of the respective SMC and nutritional aspects of the biscuits being distributed among the students in the backward areas.
They lauded the ongoing SFP of WFP and urged all for developing women leadership in the SMCs with a view to ensuring education for all children, their nutrition and bringing the school dropouts to the zero level in near future.
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