DISTRICT CONSULTATIONS REPORTS CHAPTER 2: EDUCATION Challenges ? It is very difficult for parents to raise school fees as economic activity is not very pronounced in the area save for subsistence farming. This has resulted in a high number of school dropouts. For those who remain in school the authorities do not allow them to enter classrooms without producing receipts of school fees payment. ? The BEAM is not benefitting the orphans and vulnerable children in this area. ? Only unqualified and relief teachers are allocated to schools in this rural district. Recommendations ? Learning conditions in schools should be enhanced in the areas of infrastructure, textbooks, school fees reviews and the presence of qualified teachers. ? The constitution must protect children by stating that only qualified teachers should be allowed to teach children. For the qualified, the government should ensure that they are well taken care of to avoid unnecessary and disruptive strikes. ? Current affairs and children's rights should be taught in schools. The government has the obligation to ensure that the schools provide such information to the children as it is the children's right. ·“Every school should have a library and a computer laboratory because children should have the right to information, communication and technology.” ? Parents with disabled children should send them to school and those who cannot afford should be assisted by government to pay school fees so that the children are not burdened with both disability and illiteracy. CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Challenges ? Despite the fact that teachers are aware of the negative effects of this act, they continue to beat children inflicting physical pain on them. This is inhuman and degrading. Recommendations ? This should be abolished and the constitution should criminalise beating in schools. CHILD ABUSE Challenges ? Adults are abusing children with impunity. ? Child trafficking is high in the area. Recommendations ? The judiciary must be more effective in delivering justice in child abuse cases. ? There is need to increase security measures at national boarders so that child trafficking is curbed. . CHILD LABOUR Challenges ? Children are being used to work in farms. Some are forced by their families to work and supplement the family's income and girls end up in commercial sex work. CHILD PARTICIPATION IN THE CONSTITUTION MAKING PROCESS Children's consultations CONSOLIDATED REPORT 14