Letsema Child Rights Ambassadors participates in the launch of Education Plus Initiative in Secretary which aims at increasing Access, retention, and completion of Secondary education for gender equality and wellbeing.

Lesotho is one on SADC Countries that has high female enrolment in education at all levels of learning, but this gap begins to narrow as a result of many challenges facing the girl child which include among the many early teenage pregnancy, early child forced marriages, lately high dropouts as a result of imposed COVID 19 lock downs, high failure drop rates, unfriendly learning environment for the learners with disabilities.

The participants to the launch include reps of the Secondary schools Principals school dropouts, children from CSOs and questions being discussed the reasons why learners dropout from schools some reason were those that children discussed on the Celebration of DAC as harmful practices that needed to abolished because of their negative impact.

The learners strongly talked    of many policies developed but no enforcement, lack of learners’ participation in all decision-making process.