أوغندا: مساع إسلامية لتحسين أوضاع التعليم بين المسلمات

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

في إطار الاحتفاء بارتفاع أعداد الطلاب المسلمين المشاركين في المدارس المدنية المتنوعة، بعد تأسيس جمعية الشباب المسلمين - لا تزال الجهود تُبذل لتسجيل المسلمات وتشجيعهنَّ على الالتحاق بالتعليم، وهي الجهود المتواصلة منذ عام 1960؛ حيث كان عدد الفتيات في إحدى مراحل التعليم 4 فتيات فقط.

وقد أعلنت الجمعية - خلال الاحتفال بمرور 75 عامًا على تأسيسها - عن مشروع بناء مدرسة جديدة للفتيات على مساحة 6 أفدنة، وتحتوي على أماكن للأنشطة الرياضية، وذلك في إطار تشجيع المسلمات على الجمع بين التعليم الديني والمدني؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Uganda: Muslims in Fresh Drive to Promote Girl Child Education

Twenty years after the founding of the Young Men's Muslim Association (YMMA), the number of Muslim youths enrolling in schools that offered secular education had shot up, but they were mainly males.

By 1960, there were only four Muslim girls that had studied up to O-level. The educated young Muslims were seeking educated girls to marry and an unanticipated dash for the four girls ensued, posing another challenge for Prince Badru Kakungulu (RIP), the YMMA founder.

Hajji Mustafa Mutyaba, one of the then competitors, remembers by name only three of the girls; his wife Rukia Namawuba Kigozi, Mastullah Nabakka (taken by Abu Kakyama Mayanja) and Safia Nakabiri (wife to Hajji Ntege Lubwama).

"Some of us had just returned from oversees; we could not take uneducated girls in marriage, but at the same time did not want non-Muslim girls," Mutyaba said.

This called for an added impetus in the activities of YMMA, taking on the promotion of the education of the Muslim girl child. Mutyaba was appointed by Kakungulu to deputise Hajji Musa Gava in the supervision of Muslim schools in the country, but later, the schools were taken over by the central government thus limiting the YMMA influence.

As the organization celebrated 75 years of its existence on April 18, it launched a drive for the construction of Nabisunsa Girls primary school, expected to be a feeder school for Nabisunsa Girls' School.