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The purpose of the study was to examine the implications for guidance and counselling on defiled girls in the education sector. The objectives of the study were to examine the guidance and counselling support services provided to victims of defilement, explore the knowledge base on defilement and whether information dissemination on defilement has reached the primary and secondary school pupils, find out implications for guidance and counselling on defiled girls and assess the guidance and counselling support services provided to victims of defilement in primary and secondary schools of Lusaka province. A mixed method approach was used to conduct this study. Purposive sampling was used to select the sample. Data was collected using semistructured questionnaires, and semi-structured interview schedules to a sample of 90 pupils, 15 parents, 9 guidance and counselling teachers, 9 head teachers, and 3 community leaders. Data was analysed quantitatively and thematically. The study showed that all the participants that is, girls that fell victim of defilement, parents of the girls that had experienced defilement, head teachers, counselling and guidance teachers and the community leaders, were aware about defilement and that their main source of information on defilement was the media. Other sources included sensitisation workshops, friends, neighbours and people around the community. Furthermore, the study revealed that the main perpetrators of defilement were adults and peers outside school. Other perpetrators included teachers in the school, fathers, step-fathers, uncles, elder brothers, and cousins. As regards to whether the victims of defilement were put on counselling programmes, the study revealed that the girls that had experienced defilement, parents of the girls that had experienced defilement, head teachers, counselling and guidance teachers and the community leaders all acknowledged that such girls were put on counselling programmes. This revelation is quite encouraging at a glance, but the content and quality of counselling provided is yet another aspect that need further scrutiny as it might have a bearing on the counselling programmes provided to the girls. The study further revealed that the school, family and the community provided support to the defiled girls in the form of counselling and sensitisation programmes which were provided through clubs such as SAFE and AntiAIDS clubs, and peer educators. Furthermore, the study showed that the victims of defilement were assisted by way of taking them to hospitals for medical care and in apprehending the defiler until the time of the court proceedings. In terms of whom the victims of defilement dealt with directly at school on issues relating to defilement, it was found that they mostly dealt with the head teachers. However, it was also found that to some extent they reported such matters to the guidance and counselling teachers though the support they got was reported not to have been adequate enough. Within the home, it was found that the defiled girls mostly reported such matters to their mothers and sisters and only a few dealt with their grandmothers and cousins. However it was found that the support they received from these caregivers was reported to be adequate enough. Mothers helped the victims by reporting perpetrators of the vice to police and making sure that they (perpetrators) were arrested and subsequently appeared in the courts of law. The study also revealed that girls that got defiled in some instances also dealt directly with the police by reporting the perpetrators. As regards availability of awareness programmes at school, family and community levels to empower children with child-defilement preventive skills in primary and secondary schools, it was found that such programmes were not available. However, some head teachers, and guidance and counselling teachers argued that such programmes were available in some schools. They cited NGOs such as the Young Christian Association who availed such programmes to the pupils through poems and drama. Basing on the study findings, the following were recommended: the Ministry of Education, Science, Vocational Training and Early Education through school administrators should engage itself in continuous vigorous educational awareness campaigns on child defilement; schools should strengthen the guidance and counselling section by ensuring that the guidance and counselling teachers uphold confidentiality as victims of this vice Beatrice Chirwa et al. International Journal of Humanities Social Sciences and Education (IJHSSE) Page | 27 need teachers who honour confidentiality. This will allow more girls to freely report cases of defilement; traditional practices that are anti-girls such as those that inform girls not to report gender-based violence vis-avis defilement, should be done away with. This could be achieved through community and school initiatives by working in partnership, visiting, and holding talks with traditional leaders on the evils of defilement and its consequences; and that the government through its appropriate organs should mount campaigns aimed at making the law to be more consistent with reality.

Defilement of Girls in Selected Primary and Secondary Schools in Lusaka Province: Implications for Guidance and Counselling