Chad prioritises girls’ education in new school year
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In the Moula department of Chad’s Moyen-Chari province, officials launched the 2026-2027 school year with a focus on enrolling and supporting girls’ education.
The official ceremony included administrative, educational, traditional, and security leaders who discussed their roles in student success and encouraged families to send their children to school. Prefect Senoussi Essou Nigué urged teachers to be punctual, present, and dedicated to their work, and asked parent-teacher associations to communicate with schools and encourage families about the value of education.
Prefect Nigué specifically asked traditional and community leaders to convince parents to prioritize sending girls to school before considering marriage. Authorities recognised that early marriage and teenage pregnancies can interrupt girls’ education, and want to increase dialogue with families to keep girls in classrooms. To support students directly, the prefect announced 100 scholarships for the new school year. Sixty percent of these scholarships will be awarded to girls, and forty percent to boys.
