Katie Scott
10/27/09
11:55 am
This article is about a girl named Fatimah Bamun, who dropped out of Balizenda Primary School, in the first grade when her father refused to provide her with paper and pencils. This girl lives in Ethopia, and is now back in school, only after her teachers convinced her father that she had unusual promise. She is now fourteen years on and in the fourth grade. She is now going to puberty and facing the problems that other girls in South Africa face, her menstrual cycle. This is the top reason why many girls do not even make it to the fifth grade in South Africa, there are no facilities to accomodate someone who is on there perdiod. Menstruation is so taboo in many of these subsuharan areas that women on their period are not even allowed in town. The struggle for girls to get an education is an uphill battle that only very few overcome.
I think that this article is so shocking to think that in many places there are not even bathrooms for students to use. I could not imagine not be able to obtain an education due to being on my menstrual cycle. This just seems completely unfair. These girls cannot help the biology that they were given and they should not be punished for it. They need to create some sort of basic accomodations for these girls to be able to use the bathroom when they are at school. Something as basic as this should now get in the way of them persuing an education.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/22/world/africa/22iht-ethiopia.html
5 comments:
Menstruating is not something one things of as an obstacle of furthering one's education. I wish there was help in her school for these kinds of issues.
I agree with you. This is crazy. I'm still trying to figure out why a woman being on her menstrual cycle is taboo? I mean, without it their tribes/communities wouldn't even be able to prosper. And it's a shame that natural causes are the reason for stopping an education. No bathroom? That's absurd. There could at least be ONE. Something definitely needs to be done. Education in Africa seems to be a little sexist to me.
I have heard that in some parts of the world where people do not have the same kinds of health education that we may have menstrual cycles can be considered taboo because they don’t completely understand it, and so they don’t but it together with their tribes/communities being able to prosper. It is almost as if something is wrong with a women/girl during this time. But I would agree it is not fair that this can keep girls from getting a education.
This is horrible to think that many schools in South Africa do not have any bathrooms for students to use. This is so unfair for girls like Fatimah who have their menstrual cycle and have to quick school just because they don't have bathrooms for students. I could not imagine going to a school where there was no bathrooms especially if I was on my cycle. I think the girls in South Africa should have the right to stay in school and that the school official should look into having bathrooms in school for the students.
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