{"id":148511,"date":"2019-10-26T15:52:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T13:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/first-african-home-education-indaba-held\/"},"modified":"2019-10-26T15:52:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T13:52:31","slug":"first-african-home-education-indaba-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/first-african-home-education-indaba-held\/","title":{"rendered":"First African Home Education Indaba Held"},"content":{"rendered":"

First African Home Education Indaba Held<\/a>: <\/p>\n

\u2018Home education is a right of parents and children that must be protected by every state. Nations that respect and protect the right of parents and children to home educate demonstrate a commitment to respecting human rights, but governments which restrict home education don\u2019t trust their citizens<\/em>,\u2019 said Mike Donnelly, SC, Director of Global Outreach at the HSLDA. He was a key speaker at the historic first African Home Education Indaba, held in Pretoria from 17-19 October, 2019. Delegates from a number of nations gathered to confirm their solidarity as a global homeschooling movement.<\/p>\n

Although the right to home education is protected in many international treaties and documents like the UDHR (1948), parents internationally and in many African countries like Kenya and Uganda are in a continual battle with government infringement on parental and family rights, says Godfrey Kyazze, homeschooling leader from Uganda. Peter Stock, President of the HSLDA in Canada reported that even countries like Canada experience the same threat to home education. In South Africa the freedom of homeschooling parents will be seriously restrictled if the BELA Bill, published for comment in October 2017, is passed as law.<\/p>\n

\u2018Homeschooling is good for children. It\u2019s good for families. It\u2019s good for communities. It\u2019s good for countries. It\u2019s good for the whole world<\/em>,\u2019 Donnelly said. Speaking on freedom in education, Alexey Komov, Russian homeschooling leader and board member of the GHEX, testified to the freedom homeschoolers presently enjoy in the former Soviet country, where families are actively taking the responsibility for raising their children themselves, instead of abdicating this right to the state.<\/p>\n

Policy-makers and government officials who attended the Indaba received solid researched information on all aspects of homeschooling. International researchers who attended the Indaba were Dr. Debra Bell, author and researcher from the USA, and Dr. Brian Ray, from the National Home Education Research Institute in the USA. Research confirms that the amount and intensity of regulation of homeschooling does not contribute to the success of homeschoolers.<\/p>\n

The Indaba indeed is a symbol of hope. \u2018We have been able to inspire and inform one another<\/em>,\u2019 says Canute Waswa, homeschooling father and leader from the East African Community of Homeschoolers. \u2018A generation of passionate young parents are rising up who are determined to do whatever it takes to ensure that homeschooling succeeds, not only for their generation, but also for the generations to come!<\/em>\u2019 So in spite of many obstacles \u2013 legal, social and political \u2013 the attendees of the Indaba could confirm that they are looking towards a bright future for home education in the African continent.<\/p>\n

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First day of African Home Education Indaba Photographer: Organizing committee of the AHEI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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