Tanzania: Skills Development Key in Child Education

In a usual holiday setting, students are home watching television, visiting friends and relatives or sometimes helping out with domestic chores as they wait for school to restart. But Shaun Opio, a 17-year-old Senior Four leaver from St Joseph's Senior Secondary School, Nagaalama says despite helping out with domestic chores, he has a challenge of low self-esteem. Yet, he says he needs to build his self-confidence as one of the skills to help him achieve his dream of either becoming a lawyer, or following in his father's footsteps of being a legislator in Parliament. And he seems close to redemption after he, together with other students across the divide attended a five-day self-transformation Ability Explored Students' Expo 2018 at Naalya Senior Secondary School, Buto campus, that emphasised life-skills development in students.

After realising that most of the jobs that make people realise quick income are despised skills and easy to learn at home but not taught in school, last week, Daily Monitor, Gayaza High School and Ability Explored-- a private company fostering etiquette and neglected societal skills, held the inaugural one-week personal transformation retreat for students on holiday to understand the value of skills.

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