"The above video is part of a film of Jacob Jakobsen presented by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania and produced with the support from the Danmission and Danish Mission Council Development Department.
We are sharing this video to show the carnage perpetrated by teachers and particularly by headmasters and headmistresses in schools in Tanzania. Our sole aim is not to hurt or traumatize parents of these kids or to downgrade or belittle the good work that teachers in Tanzania are doing today under very difficult circumstances. But, to create awareness and bring to notice child abuse among our schools in Tanzania which is very rampant today.
In the video the headmaster says that students must be caned because they are just like cats. This is an abusive statement from a headmaster!
As parent ourselves, we are devastated to see the severity of these punishments, especially to girls. In the video one girl is even crying for mercy because her finger has been injured by the teacher and the teacher doesn’t bother. He goes on caning her. These are not punishments to correct pupils' behaviours. These are human rights abuses and must be condemned by the Ministry of Education in the country.
Our intention is to tell teachers that the good work that they are doing is camouflaged by these abusive acts that they create in their schools.
I hope this 2nd video will help to educate each and every one of us, that we need to be very kind and humane especially when dealing with kids, as they are the future leaders of our countries. We said this before and we are saying it again, that without our children this country will not have any leaders in the future and therefore let's treat them as fellow human beings and not as cats!"
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