I have no idea how fast rumors spread until I stepped out of the bubble and started to interact with people I used to hardly talk to at school.
Factors that contribute to high insecurity levels in these slum areas include low presence of law enforcement agents, and high levels of unemployment among youth leading to idleness, drug and alcohol abuse and crime. For example, in the ERP data percent of students in slum schools admitted to ever having sold drugs, whilst only.percent of non slum children admitted to this. However a high number of children in both slum and non-slum schools said that there was a drug and alcohol problem at their school, with percent in slum schools and percent in non-slum schools admitting this. Although most studies of insecurity in Nairobi have focused on how insecurity negatively affects the economy by pushing tourists and investors away, our main focus will be to look at how this insecurity impacts on education and educational attainment among slum children .
Theoretically, the family is a source of security for all members who belong to that family unit. It is the site of social reproduction as children are born and are socialized within the family. the family provides the individual with a safety net and a buffer against outside pressures. the family provides the individual with a sense of security. When the family for any reason stops functioning then the individuals who belong to that particular family unit become generally insecure. One of the common factors that helped to explain why some children from poor families ended up dropping out of school was family breakdown or violence within the family.In some cases of violence within the home, especially in cases where the parents thought all the time, some children might prefer to stay at home to monitor the situation and protect one parent from the other parent.
this post has discussed how general security concerns can impact on school attendance. the focus was on how people’s understandings and interpretations of events and occurrences, as well as narratives of risk, can impact on their actions. It is also interesting to note the role of embodied history and community repertoires in influencing people’s decisions on whether to withdraw from school or not. the perception of insecurity may more often than not influence how people act and behave regardless of whether the perceived threat is real or not. “Although perceptions of insecurity are not always borne out by statistical evidence, they fundamentally affect well-being”
