Tonga National Youth Congress Helps School Drop Outs Featured
Nuku'alofa, 16 September 2015. The Tonga National Youth Congress is on a mission to help young people who have dropped out of school get back on track.
It is estimated there have been 1,000 school drop outs in Tonga every year since 2008, with many of them never getting the help they need to get back into the education system.
The one-year project is being supported by the aid organisation, International Needs. Its executive director, Gradon Harvey, says as part of the first phase of the project, the National Youth Congress has been speaking to school principals and students to find out how it can help.
"For instance, the found there were three students that had dropped out just because their family couldn't pay school fees, so they were able to help. They also looked at, through discussions with the principals, ways where they might re-engage the young ones that had dropped out. They all said quite honestly once the children that had been causing problems were out of the school they kind of moved on and had forgotten about them."
Source: Radio New Zealand
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Fakamalo atu TNYC 'a e fakahoko 'a e fo'i ngaue lelei ko'eni, ke mou fakatokanga'i atu 'e kimoutolu 'a e tafa'aki ko'eni. He kuo 'ikai 'ilopau e tefito'i palopalema ia, kuo tala ko e matu'a ko e fakavaivai he teke 'enau fanau ki he ako, pe ko'enau fakapikopiko hono fua e kavenga fakaako a e fanau. Taimi 'e taha ko e fanau 'oku nau hola mei he ako o malavalava mai 'a 'api ia ka e tonounou fanau. Ka ko e fakakatoa, ko e tamaiki koeni 'oku 'ikai fakahoko 'a e faingamalie fakaako, ko e ni'ihi ai 'oku nau fakatuai'i e langa 'o e sosaieti 'aki 'enau fakahoko e ngaahi 'ulungaanga fakatamaiki 'i he kaiha'a, mo e ha fua, 'o ta'emalava ai pe 'a e langafonua 'oku fai. 'Oku tau fakatauange pe 'e hokohoko lelei atu ai pe a e TNYC hono fai e ngaue koeni ke a'u lelei, oua e identify pe palopalema pea ngata ai, ka mou hoko atu koeha ha solution foki kiai. Ofa ke foaki ivi atu a e Otua ki he ngaue mahu'inga 'oku fai!