Girls' Secondary School

Nowadays nearly all Tanzanian children can attend primary school (for seven years). But secondary education still is a privilege. This is true for boys, but even more so for girls.

When the Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing opened a secondary school for girls in 1968, that situation was even worse than it is today. Many men thought education for girls to be not important. But the sisters went on with their plans despite the reserve of some male missionaries and also of some native priests.

The school is a boarding school, even the students who live in Peramiho village return to their families only during holidays. After four years (called form I to form IV) they sit the O-level examination. After two more years (form V and form VI) they leave the school after A-level.

Three Tutzing Missionary Benedictine Sisters and one monk of Peramiho Abbey work at the school teaching mathematics, bible knowledge and religion.