![]() They have to walk through rough terrain to get from their secondary school to their school’s hostel in Mwanza city. © 2016 Elin Martínez/Human Rights Watch Female students who are blind, are guided down a steep and slippery hill by their teachers. I got 30,000 shillings per month … not enough to pay for school.” She failed the secondary school exam and dropped out of Form IV. I worked and I also worked over the weekends. ![]() She worked as a domestic worker to help pay her school fees: “From 8 a.m. © 2016 Elin Martínez/Human Rights Watch Frances (pseudonym), 21, struggled to pay for secondary school. She told Human Rights Watch: “We have marks in the legs, they hit our hands, they hit us on the head.” ![]() © 2016 Elin Martínez/Human Rights Watch A girl shows the marks she sustained on her legs from regular caning by teachers in her school. Human Rights Watch found that some teachers also beat students with wooden sticks, or with their hands or other objects. © 2016 Elin Martínez/Human Rights Watch A bamboo cane used by a teacher to cane students in a classroom lies on a desk at a secondary school in Mwanza, northwestern Tanzania. In Tanzania, school officials routinely subject girls to forced pregnancy testing as a disciplinary measure to expel pregnant students from schools. ![]() © 2016 Elin Martínez/Human Rights Watch Eileen (pseudonym), 21, dropped out of Form II when her school conducted a pregnancy test and school officials and parents found out she was pregnant. The painting aims to create awareness about sexual abuse of girls on their way to schools, and shows a female student refusing to take money from an adult man, saying “Sidanganyiki” or “I cannot be deceived” in Kiswahili. © 2016 Elin Martínez/Human Rights Watch A painting outside Rafiki Social Development Organization’s office in Kahama district, Shinyanga. More than 120 Form II students prepare to sit their mock exams in a secondary school in Mwanza, northwestern Tanzania. ![]()
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