Bitondo and other young girls

Sexual harassment in schools is a growing phenomenon here.

Exactly what is sexual harassment of pupils in the schools?

The teachers offer to give their female pupils good grades in exchange for sex.

In other words, these teachers who should be safeguarding the morality of these young girls are beginning to destroy it. I can quote the recent example of BITONDO, a sixteen-year-old pupil at a school who was the victim of sexual harassment on the part of her chemistry teacher.

This teacher said he would give her good grades on the pretext that she had not passed her final exam. If she didn’t accept she would have less chance of going on to the next year.

Despite these threats BITONDO resisted emphatically.

One day the teacher invited her to his home for a short meeting, strangely the teacher used violence on the young girl but his target managed to escape.

As an activist I wanted to denounce this situation because it has so many negative effects on the education of young girls, in particular:

young girls stop trying to do well at school

unwanted pregnancies which force the girls to give up their studies

the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS