CI-NEWS

Preventing social ills in schools: MINESEC, MINAS review strategies.

2019-10-14

No: 451

Preventing social ills in schools: MINESEC, MINAS review strategies.

Secondary education stakeholders have been encouraged to be more diligent in coaching children with special needs especially those who are currently internally displaced, in all school activities.

The call was made October 8, in Yaounde at a workshop to evaluate the challenges faced by social workers in the school environment. Jointly organised by the Ministries of Secondary Education and Social Affairs in collaboration with Sight Savers, an international nongovernmental organisation, some of the salient points at the two-day forum were to evaluate the challenges of Social Action in School Environment; Inclusive Education, Prevention Against Social Risks and ills, Psychosocial Care of Internally Displaced Students.

During the workshop that brought together participants of the Ministry of Secondary Education, and social workers from the Ministry of Social Affairs and those of Sight Savers, the challenges faced by social workers were brought to the fore. To the Minister of Secondary Education, Professor Nalova Lyonga, the objective of the workshop was to take a look at the challenges that Cameroon faces today. “You would agree that after the great dialogue, our country is facing lot of challenges and I think the teacher is right at the centre of this, because we have to treat and transmit the right attitudes to the next generation. What is the school without social affairs workers? Those are the people who orient the children and the teachers in schools. In a short while, teachers will be having students with different attitudes in their various classrooms and it will be their job to ensure that these children can feel like one person in a country. That is actually the work of the teacher and if the teacher can give that value to the children he himself must have the value,” Professor Nalova Lyonga stated.

As noted by Social Affairs Minister Pauline Irene Nguele, the Ministry of Social Affairs is at disposal of the education community at all times. That notwithstanding, the new forms of violence on social media and the intake of drugs by some students is alarming; a situation which calls for immediate action. The crisis in the North West and South West regions was brought to the limelight, especially the plight of internally displaced students. She therefore called on the stakeholders to facilitate the registration of these students into schools and the immediate integration of the students into the various communities. Discussions during the event centred on strategies and actions of preventing risks and social ills in schools, psychological support to Internally Displaced Students (IDS), assessing of the internally displaced students’ needs (including students with disabilities) and strategies, approaches and actions for the integration of IDPs in schools. Teachers were equally congratulated on the good job they have been doing so far to safeguard the future of the children.

Culled from Cameroon Insider.

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Preventing social ills in schools: MINESEC, MINAS review strategies.