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Girls and boys have

the same abilities
Girls
There are things boys and girls can do. Some • Sweep classrooms/offices
are biological, but most of them are social. • Take care of younger ones
• Make sure all children are clean
Biological roles for girls/
• Pick rubbish
women include:
• Clean the home/house
• Getting pregnant
• Fetch water, firewood, •Cook
• Breast-feeding
• Wash clothes
There are however social roles that
• Wash utensil
are determined by society.
WE CAN: Both boys and girls of
Boys Shigalagala Pri. Sch, fetch
Pupils of Musasa and Shigalagala Pri • Make sure the school is clean water for use at school
Sch in Kakamega talked to SV WE ARE EQUAL: Agnes Mwangi, • Wash toilets •Pick rubbish
journalists about duties believed to be Director, Gender and Communi- • Help teachers on duty to ensure What girls and boys do is
of girls and of boys, at home and at cation, KSA speaks to boys and children keep time decided by society. Society is made up
school. girls of Musasa Pri. Sch, • Slash • Feed cows/goats of people. This also means that people
Kakamega. • Dig can still change the beliefs they have
You may notice that some of the and boys. So are there duties meant • Plant trees about girls and boys. They can also
duties were mentioned for both girls for girls and duties for boys? • Pick rubbish change the roles both play.
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Say NO to wrong beliefs Boys and girls You have no right

to order me around.
Some tribes in Kenya have the
following beliefs that are not
Girls:
• Do not allow anyone to put you
can help each Besides you can also
clean up. Who told
you boys cannot clean
based on the truth. Say No to
beliefs that can lead you into
down. Be assertive. (Say what you
stand for and stick to it).
other Boys are
the place?

superior and
danger and that discriminate • Work hard. You are as equally Clean up after all, God
boys and girls. bright as the boys here. It is made you
your duty as girls as our If you were
• Look after yourselves well and keep superior you
a girl. helpers
Girls are not allowed to grow trees. If clean would be able to
• Get involved in activities around do everything for
they do, a boy who cuts it will die you. Do not be idle. yourself. You
Really? Ok! Let us would not need
and the girl would not get children help each a helper
when she marries. By Dickson Boys: other!
• Respect girls, they are your sisters,
If a girl planted bananas they would your mothers.
dry up. And she may not get married • Help each other (both girls and
in future. If a girl built a house, she boys) in areas where one is weak.
would go crazy.
By Bramwel Raymonds Kundu
This girl
Boys should not get used to cooking makes bricks
because when they grow up and to get school
marry, they will not appreciate what fees.
their wives cook. Also when boys do Nothing
what is meant for girls, they would wrong has
be laughed at. Mercy, 13, happened to
Shigalagala Pri Sch, class 6 her.
When girls put on trousers before
Girls and boys are
their parents, it is a sign of equally bright
disrespect.
Interviews by Deborah,
Meroline and Nick Odhiambo
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I am happy with who I am

TELL ME: SV journal- FEMALE JOURNALISTS: Auleria Amutavi,

ist, Eugen Omondi Cynthia Milano, Laura Meroline and Joanne
interviews a pupil at Busieka participated in writing this Scouts
Musasa Pri. Sch Voice Issue

Club activity
Without considering the biological roles, think, look
around and write down duties carried by boys and
girls both at home and at school.
PROUD TO BE BOYS: HAPPY TO BE GIRLS:
Bramwel Kundu and Ghandi Cynthia Chepkirui and Rachel Discuss the roles that girls can play that boys cannot
Yousif SV journalists are Chebet, SV journalists are and what boys can do and that girls cannot do.
happy to be boys proud to be girls Do you consider boys and girls equal?
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