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Rwanda
Association of University Women (RAUW)
Project to help make girls much
more aware of existing and current career opportunities. There is considerable
need for a project of this kind in Rwanda as there is little or no career
counselling in schools for girls or boys. The counselling project
uses a very successful handbook produced and used in schools by the Uganda
Association of University Women (UAUW). RAUW
members have translated the original UAUW Guidance and Career Counselling
Handbook from English into French. An initial trial was run
was made during 2008 in three schools; comprising two government schools,
Lycee de Kigalia and FAWE Girls' School and one private school, Green
Hills Academy. More than 90 secondary school girls took part in
the trial and it have benefited from the introduction of this handbook.
A few boys at the Lycee were also included in the trials at the request
of the school and positive benefits are also reported. The book
was found to be very appropriate to the needs of the teenagers and was
well received by students, teachers and parents alike. The trial
handbook was printed by the Rwanda Government and the Rwanda Ministry
of Education Curriculum Development Centre is currently reviewing the
book with a view to providing it as a Ministry text for all schools in
the near future. |
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