{"id":59952,"date":"2023-03-04T16:30:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T16:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/?p=59952"},"modified":"2023-03-04T18:40:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T18:40:18","slug":"prejudice-prevents-the-girls-of-the-communities-from-pursuing-professional-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/prejudice-prevents-the-girls-of-the-communities-from-pursuing-professional-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Prejudice prevents the girls of the communities from pursuing professional programs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Zana X\u00ebrxa, an English language teacher at the &#8220;Nexhmedin Nixha&#8221; technical high school, says that a small number of girls are attending this school. She shows that about five percent of the students belong to the communities and that the parents do not allow their daughters to enroll in these programs because of prejudices.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Prejudice prevents the girls of the communities from pursuing professional programs\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ojauOm_7s6o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Students and teachers of schools in Gjakova, attended\ntoday the lectures on media education. Today, the second phase with the topic\n&#8220;Misinformation, disinformation and malicious information&#8221; has been\ncompleted, within the project &#8220;Media education for teachers of students\nfrom the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Social conditions are generally one of\nthe factors that possibly negatively affect students, in particular those from\nnon-majority communities. While, as far as information, the media issues, we\nhave some technical programs where there are mainly male students. Therefore,\ndue to disinformation, the parents were misinformed that there are no girls in\nthose programs and they\nare reluctant to enroll them to certain programs in our school.\nThis has made many girls drop out of school after enrollement&#8221;, she states\nfor KosovaPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ernesa Bajrami, who is in the first year of\nthe high school of medicine &#8220;Hysni Zajmi&#8221;, says that her peers are\nfacing bullying, prejudice and exclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Very often, there are fake news, even\nthough they are not that kind of news at all, everyone believes that news. Many\nstudents of the communities have dropped out of school halfway&#8230;Mostly the\nstudents of the communities, even if it is not about you personally, you take\nit as if it is about you,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project manager, Fadil Miftari, says that\nthe workshop sessions started in September and more than 160 students and\nteachers participated in them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;More than 160 participants in total, attended\nthe workshop during these eight lectures on the topic. An extremely large\nnumber, about 70 percent of the participants were female educators\/teachers,\nfemale students and as you saw even today here in Gjakova, a 100 percent of the\nattendees were women and girls&#8221;, he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, it emphasizes that due to\ndisinformation, many children of the communities are dropping out of school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;One of the findings was that the members of these communities did not respond positively to the vaccination against Covid-19, entirely due to disinformation. Then there were other findings, that a large number of girls drop out of school due to incorrect information or prejudices in relation to them. These were some elements where we wanted to intervene and give them information on how to protect themselve&#8221;, continues Miftari.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1677946610-1024x472.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59955\" width=\"694\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1677946610-1024x472.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1677946610-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1677946610-768x354.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1677946610-1536x708.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1677946610.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The lecturer, Linda Baleta says that the\npurpose of these sessions with students and teachers was to inform them on how\nto identify news with manipulative content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The goal of the workshop &#8220;Media\neducation for students, teachers and civil society activists from the Roma,\nAshkali and Egyptian communities&#8221;, was to enable all participants to\nidentify, and not accept media content that is manipulative, and instead choose\ninformation that is reliable, objective and verified,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With financial support from the American\nEmbassy in Pristina, the &#8220;KosovaPress&#8221; News Agency, together with the\nnon-governmental organization &#8220;Young Community Leaders Center\/YCLC&#8221;,\nhave organized these lectures within the seven-month project, where the aim was\nto raise the awareness of communities against disinformation, as well as\nstrengthening the role of civil society activists from the Roma, Ashkali and\nEgyptian communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project included two phases, where in the\nfirst phase the teachers of primary schools from the sixth to the ninth grade\nwere involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, in the second phase, professors and\nsecondary school students from grades 10 to 12 were involved. Meanwhile,\nanother workshop will be held in March that will include civil society\nactivists from these three communities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Anti-Disinformation Media Education Project for Teachers, Students, and Civil Society Activists from the Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian Communities, is supported by the United States Embassy in Pristina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Untitled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59953\" width=\"286\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Untitled-1.jpg 412w, https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Untitled-1-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zana X\u00ebrxa, an English language teacher at the &#8220;Nexhmedin Nixha&#8221; technical high school, says that a small number of girls are attending this school. 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