Thousands of Teenage Mothers To Resume School In Tanzania

Thousands of teenage mothers will be among the 3000 girls returning to school this January under the special World Bank-funded – Secondary education quality improvement project – alternative education pathway (SEQUIP-AEP).

Institute of Adult Education (IAE) Director Dk Michael Ng’umbi announced that the group is part of the 12,000 girls targeted to benefit during a five-year project running between 2021/22 and 2025/26 academic year.

“We have embarked on the registration process by involving district education officers, ward and village executive officers,” he said in Morogoro.

Students who were pregnant or mothers were officially ban from schools since June 2017 under the government of late President John Magufuli and his successor, President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who took office in March 2021.

But Dr Ng’umbi says now the teenagers aged between 13 and 21 will be returning to school this new year.