A school that I know monitors the progress, shares information and review’s pupils’ support needs. The school always calls the attention of any observed unwanted behavior of a student with the school-based management committee for proper investigation. 

For example, there is an 11 year old girl (name withheld) who goes to school daily with her little siblings, but on the way makes a stop at a house where a man has asked her to make a stop daily. She goes in and does not report to school until break time. Some men reported this case to me and I told the head teacher. The next day the school and SBMC representative watched out for her and when she came in at break time, she was waylaid by the teachers and the SBMC representative asked to see her privately in the head teacher’s office where they spoke to her convincingly and she later told them that the man takes off her panties and has his way with her after which he gives her N50 (fifty Naira only) to buy food during lunchtime in school and asks her to return in the evening. They asked her what time she leaves home? She replied at 7.45am and does not eat breakfast. She buys food and water with the money the man gives her. They reported the case to the Police. The man was arrested and we took him and the girl to the hospital where they were tested. Luckily he was not HIV positive and the girl was taken care of. The head teacher and SBMC representative followed the girl home and spoke with her mother on the danger she has exposed her girl to because she was not feeding them breakfast and has allowed them to walk to school unprotected. Though the family is so poor, the promised to improve in taking care of the children.

The man who has molested the girl was sentenced to two years sentence imprisonment and girl now goes to the head teacher’s house every morning to collect her breakfast and they walk to school together daily”.