Covid-19 and Girl Child Educational Attainment in Selected Primary Schools in Kyamuhunga Sub-county, Bushenyi district-Western Uganda

Abstract

With the outbreak of COVID-19 in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, the little ray of hope for girl-child educational attainment was completely shuttered. Historically, education in general and girls’ education in particularly has been an issue in development circles especially among the poor countries of the world, and with the outbreak of COVID-19, this was no exception as COVID-19 hit education; and girl child situation hardest in the poor countries of the world. Against this background, it was imperative that a study entitled; COVID-19 and Girl Child Educational Attainment in Selected Primary Schools in Kyamuhunga Sub-county, Bushenyi district-Western Uganda be carried out. The purpose of the study was to find out how COVID-19 affected girl-child educational attainment in selected primary schools in Kyamuhunga Sub County, Bushenyi District. The study used a mixed research design where both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection were used.