And more house chore burdens were imposed on young women.

However, presently enormous emphasis has been given to improve these situations. Particularly, the zone’s gender club pays efforts to further develop girls’ self-confidence. Teachers offer tutorial classes and carry out awareness creation activities to change the prevailing situations.

Currently, the zone focuses on specific thematic areas, such as on women affairs, community service, prevention of child and girls’ abuse among others. However, lack of mini-media at school level impedes the possibility of carrying out co-curricular activities, and promoting gender clubs. There are about 600 schools in the zone, but only 20 schools have mini-media clubs.