IN EVERY TEN FAMILIES WHICH WERE AFFECTED BY DAR ES SALAAM FLOODING, EACH OF EIGHT FAMILIES HAD AT LEAST A CHILD AT SCHOOL.

BACKGROUND

In January 2012,ENVAYA (www.envaya.org) which is an electronic platform of grassroots CSOs in Tanzania to its members the idea of conducting a survey regarding the recent Dar es salaam flooding to assess the effect of flooding in terms of dwellers’properties,water services, income and infrastructures.PELO was among the organizations which participated on the exercise. But since the much concentration of PELO is on Education it went further by assessing the effect of flooding in terms of schooling of children. The survey of PELO revealed that in every ten families that are found to have been affected by flooding, it is only two families which could be found to have no children at school thus pupil/student. The remaining eight families each has at least one child at school.That means the recent flooding has affected academic performance of a big number of children.

KATIKA FAMILIA kila kumi ambayo yalikuwa walioathirika na mafuriko DAR ES SALAAM, kila mmoja wa FAMILIA minane alikuwa ANGALAU MTOTO shuleni.

USULI

Katika Januari 2012, ENVAYA ( www.envaya.org ) ambayo ni jukwaa umeme wa asasi za kiraia ngazi ya chini katika Tanzania kwa wanachama wake wazo la kufanya utafiti kuhusu hivi karibuni Dar es salaam mafuriko ya kutathmini athari za mafuriko katika suala la dwellers'properties , huduma za maji, mapato na infrastructures.PELO alikuwa miongoni mwa mashirika ambayo walishiriki katika zoezi la. Lakini tangu ukolezi mengi ya PELO ni juu ya Elimu ilienda mbele zaidi kwa kuchunguza athari za mafuriko katika suala la elimu ya watoto. utafiti wa PELO umebaini kuwa katika familia kila kumi ni kupatikana kwa kuwa walioathirika na mafuriko, ni mbili tu familia ambayo ingeweza kupatikana kwa kuwa na watoto katika shule ya mwanafunzi hivyo mwanafunzi /. iliyobaki nane kila familia ina angalau mtoto mmoja school.That ina maana ya mafuriko ya hivi karibuni imeathiri utendaji wa kitaaluma na idadi kubwa ya watoto.