Een van onze bestuursleden heeft tijdens ons beslissingstraject voor dit project een paar vragen gesteld en deze vragen werden door ervaringsdeskundige Sidy Diop, Europees Coordinator van Asispev, beantwoord. Tussendoor staan foto's van de voortgang van ons project.
Ik kan alleen niet terugvinden of het op die school voor
zowel jongens als voor meisjes is. Dat is toch een voorwaarde die de
stichting ook hieraan stelt. Als het voor zowel jongens als meisjes is, dan
ga ik akkoord, anders niet. Kennen we de school al een beetje? Ben namelijk
ook benieuwd naar hoe traditioneel de Koran of te wel de Islam onderwezen
wordt. Als het te extreem is, dan ben ik daar geen voorstander van.
I am going to give some answers and will let Karima ask for the exact head
counts today in the Koran school we are building the dormitory.
I was myself in a Koran school before joining the public primary school.
Parallel to the public primary school, I was going 2 days a week to a Koran
school. This was my own choice because I loved this Koran school I had got
friends there. My sisters have done the same. Karima I suppose has
also done the same and this is usual in the city areas in Senegal. In villages, children are longer in the Koran school usually.
To be honest I must tell that people usually push more for the teaching of boysthan for girls. The situation is in Senegal similar to nearly every where in the 3rd world. This was also the case in Europe some years ago.
Porokhane is a bit an exception. As you may be know, In this place there is the tomb of the mother of Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba named Mame Diarra Bousso. So a village of a woman. Here Women play a bigger role than in some other areas. Every year there is a very big pilgrimage to this tomb. This is 1 unique example in the whole Muslim world I suppose.
In the same place of Porokhane, the Mouride Brother/sisterhood has opened since years the biggest girl Islamic school in Senegal where the girls are
learning the religion and the normal official program of Senegal in Arabic
language. they here also learn French to get an easier access to higher schools. In Porokhane you have also got the official mixed school which is also supported by your organisation.
The other remaining school system in Porokhane and also everywhere in
Senegal and in the Muslim regions of Africa is the traditional Koran school. Some boys and girls are staying in these schools from the beginning to an age of 16/20, some others are staying 1/3 years to have a religious basis and to than joint other school types. I am one if this second group but I have also got several friends doing actually a successful life after having been part of the first group.
For the girls usually the parents are not sending them in others regions to learn Koran. Normally they do it in the village of origin and do not need to go to a dormitory. they go back every day. There are some exceptions I have seen in some areas in Senegal like in Touba. Daily the school is mixed and contains boys and girls. Teachers can be men or women. In this school the main teacher is a man I am not sure if there are not ladies as teachers.
You can believe me, the teachers an the Koran schools in general are
normally not doing a difference between boys and girls in term of teaching. Boys are doing field works and girls if they are full day in such a school are helping in the home works. For dormitories since the girls are mainly in there own villages they will rarely use it.
Here are the main steps in a Koran school:
1-You learn first the ABC of Arabic (ca. 6 months)
2- than you start to memorise the Koran from the end to the beginning since the last sores are shorter than the starting ones (2 to 4 years)
3- After memorising you start with the analyse of the Koran including
translation and study of other religious sciences (2 to 6 years). the boys and girls in this level are also teaching to youngsters and are also working mainly in fields for the school. This level is also some time done in different schools of different regions so people can learn from different schools and from different teachers.
4- Last step is the writing. Some go back home only after having written a
complete Koran and/or after writing about an other thematic.
Today, you find schools well organised where children do all the 4
steps in less than 4 years and they go after in public schools. These new Koran schools are mainly in big cities like Dakar or Touba and the parents have to pay for there children.
In a school like the one in Porokhane, children are there for 2 to 10 years
according to planning of the parents for there children. the ones staying for short time will mainly continue in public schools and the others staying longer are later farmers or sales peoples you meet every where in tourist areas in the world or they learn a handy work and are the workers/the bests in Senegal (auto mechanics, electric etc...).
In this project we want to support also these children of a Koran school first for getting more acceptance in the village since people will see that we are system neutral helping public and traditional school. After getting this acceptance, we will motivate an exchange between the 2 schools because we think that the best would be to shorten the staying in the Koran school without reducing the main contain and to than go to the public school with a better traditional basis ( we must not forget the public school is more French than Senegalese). We will also tray to motivate a dual system where children go to the Koran school but also some days the week to some workshops to learn other practical works. All that step by step.
In directing of the girls we need to look specially and always to find a good place for them. This is a intensive work Karima must do toward the
school owner. Here the best will be to accelerate the stay in the Koran school so that they get easier access to the public school where the girls have got definitely more opportunities. this is to be organise step by step with care.
Children are learning very fast if they get the chance to do so.
We want to help them reduce the time they stay in the traditional school without cutting them all the roots. They must all get a chance to enter the next parts of life which are the practical schools or the working life.
For any further questions you are welcome.
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