Tsogolo Langa - My Future! Campaign

A key part of the project is the production and airing of Tsogolo Langa (My Future!), a 30- minute radio magazine programme that features experiences of young girls and the challenges they face in accessing education. It also features parents, traditional leaders, and gender and education experts who debate on some of the community and structural level factors that affect access to education by the girl child.

Community mobilisation includes the establishment of 48 radio listener clubs for girls and mothers from 24 primary schools. The girl clubs have on average 25 members each and are supervised by female teachers. The mother groups comprise of 10 women who operate on a volunteer basis. Each group has trained facilitators and a wind up radio. They meet once a week after school to listen to the programme and hold facilitated discussions. After each discussion, they agree on an action point, which is an activity that the group does to actively promote girls education in their specific communities.

Complementing the mass media strategy and community mobilisation activities by radio listener clubs are quarterly advocacy meetings. These are used to mobilise support from traditional leaders, religious leaders, school management committee members, parent-teacher association members, headmasters and parents to be actively involved in girl’s education within their communities. In these dialogue sessions, participants map out key issues that affect girls' education in their communities and formulate action plans of how they will go about addressing those barriers.

The project is part of a larger gender programme by SOIR which is working to contribute to the reduction of gender inequalities in education through the promotion of girl's education. As part of monitoring activities, a field monitoring officer visits the schools four times a week and on a Friday, compiles a monitoring report for the week.

Education, Gender Inequality