Impact of Female Genital Mutilation on Girl-Child Education: A Case Study in Kanvumu Bukedea District, Eastern Uganda
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2019-09
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Kampala International University, school of science with education
Abstract
This research deals with female genital mutilation and its impact on girl..child education in
Kanyurnu sub-county, Bukedea district. This research was being carried out because Bukedea
is one of the districts in Eastern part of Uganda that encompasses the Sabiny speaking people
who are known of practicing female genital mutilation. They do this as one of the ways of
maintaining their culture and crossing over to a different age/set group and woman-hood too.
Some countries like Somalia and Sudan do it for public recognition. However, female genital
mutilatiop (FGM) has been outlawed in Uganda of its associated evils towards girl children
and women’s education in Kanyumu sub-county and the country at large.
The purpose and objective of the research was to determine whether there was a relationship
between female genital mutilation and education of specifically girls and women. FGM is
practiced for medical or non-medical reasons. It involves a surgeon, the “candidate” that
is,the girt or woman to be circumcised and parents of the candidate or Elders. Some countries
like Egypt would legalize it to the extent of dcing it in a barber’s saloon not until one young
girl died as a result. This then caused absolute abolition of FGM in Egypt. The government of
the republic of Egypt coined it that FGM is not on the laws of Islam and is therefore illegally
done with no ground to base on.
FGM is measured in terms of the number, of those who have undergone the practice, those
who are yet to undergo (those at risk) and those who do not want to undergo the practice
whereas girl and women education is measured in terms of the level of practice and the level
of education of those who ‘were not cut and continued studying.
Questionnaires were developed and distributed to the sample population.it comprised of
various villages selected randomly. The target population were; the Elders (both male
female), young girls (aged 12-18) and married women. A total of 50 questionnaires were
filled by the target population. Only 35 of the copies were returned there by achieving a
response percentage of about 70.
The result found out that there was a significant relationship between female genital
mutilation and education of girls and women. Therefore, it could be inferred that female
genital mutilation is strongly associated to the low levels of girl’s and women’s education in
this area of study.in deduction from the selected areas of the study, this research has it that
with low levels of education have a high percentage of mutilated females and vice versa
Description
A Research Report Submitted to the School of Education In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of a Bachelor’s Degree of Science with Education of Kampala International University
Keywords
Female Genital Mutilation on Girl-Child Education, Kanvumu Bukedea District