【Educational Environment】Facilitating Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) session by MHM peer club

This is the second phase of the project on ‘Improvement of school environment to combat Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) challenges to Stop Adolescent Girls’ School Dropouts in Uganda’ supported by funds from the Lush Charity Bank of Lush Japan, Co., Ltd.

Students having a group photo after the session

At this time, we will report about Activity 2-2-2 ‘Facilitating Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) session by MHM peer club’ conducted in Nov 2018.

Three MHM clubs (8girls&4boys) were formed from 3 target schools. The purpose of these clubs was to spearhead MHM, gender awareness and sex education by reaching out to fellow students through the child-child approach. Last time, The MHM clubs conducted gender awareness raising sessions (one session in each of the three schools) toward their school pupils. This time, they conducted MHM session, and club members trained their peers on issues related to MHM including making of reusable sanitary pads

MHM club facilitating MHM training

Demonstrating how to use a reusable sanitary pad

The club members demonstrating how the material is used

MHM club taught their peers about proper personal hygiene management

Topics

●      General overview of menstruation.

●      Menstrual cycle.

●      Signs and symptoms/ characteristics of menstruation.

●      Menstrual Hygiene Management.

●      Making of reusable sanitary pad.

Outcome

●      Pupils understood what menstruation is and who are the people starting their menstruation periods.

●      624 pupils (215 boys and 409 girls) were trained in MHM and the boys will fight against the habit of bullying girls whenever their clothes are stained with blood.

●      School managers pledged to continue supporting the clubs and appreciated their roles.

●      All the 3 project schools accepted to allocate time in every week for the MHM club activities especially in reusable sanitary pad making.

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‘Activity 2-2-2 Facilitating MenstruationHygiene Management (MHM) session by MHM peer club‘

*This project is supported by Lush Japan Co., Ltd.

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【Educational Environment】Child-child gender awareness by Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) Peer clubs

This is the second phase of the project on ‘Improvement of school environment to combat Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) challenges to Stop Adolescent Girls’ School Dropouts in Uganda’ supported by funds from the Lush Charity Bank of Lush Japan, Co., Ltd..

Students attending gender awareness training

At this time, we will report about Activity 2-2-1 ‘Child-child gender awareness by MHM Peer clubs’ conducted in May 2018.

Three MHM clubs (8girls&4boys) were formed from 3 target schools. The purpose of these clubs was to spearhead MHM, gender awareness and sex education by reaching out to fellow students through the child-child approach. 

Last time, they were trained in MHM, gender awareness and sex education, including sexual and reproductive health rights awareness. 

This time, the clubs conducted gender awareness raising sessions (one session in each of the three schools) toward their school pupils.

Preparing for the gender training by MHM club

Facilitating the training by MHM club

Noting down what learners have learnt from the training

Topics

●      Differentiating gender and sex

●      Examples of gender-based characteristics

●      Different gender roles and responsibilities

●      Roles of students/pupils as change agents

●       Roles of teachers/educators as change agents

* Change agents’ means a model or to be used as leaders of change to spread knowledge and information to other community members

  

Outcome

●      Pupils were able to differentiate gender and sex

●      MHM club facilitators clearly indicated that sex and gender

●      At the end of the training, pupils were able to freely mention most of the gender roles and responsibilities segregated according to gender.

●      The MHM club members informed pupils about their roles and responsibilities as change agents. Female pupils (girls) were tasked to act as promoters and advocates against Sexual Gender Based Violence.

●      Teachers were also reminded of their roles and responsibilities in promoting an environment that is gender sensitive.

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‘Activity2-2-1 Facilitating gender awareness session by MHM peer club ‘

*This project is supported by Lush Japan Co., Ltd.

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【Environmental Protection】School based environmental education and awareness campaigns

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Regarding ‘Environmental Protection through Expanding Lemon grass growing and Education in Uganda’, this is the second report of 2nd year of this project.

Environmental Education at school

This time, ‘Activity 1.6: School based environmental education and awareness campaigns’ were carried out on June 2018.

A total of 8,020 children were participated in 16 schools of at least 500 child enrolment.

The purpose of this campaigns

1.     To instill the value of protecting and taking good care of the environment in children’s minds through various environmental conservation measures.

2.     To increase schools’ awareness on environmental protection methods and the reasons why they are needed for example, tree planting, lemon grass growing, and environmental conservation laws among others.

Environmental Education at school

Environmental Education at school

The outcomes of this training were as following.

• Children noted how it would be punishable to break school rules related to environment protection.
• School children promised to inform their parents about lessons learnt in order for them to know the importance of conserving the environment.
• Teachers thanked for the support to providing tree seedlings to schools which will help foster environment conservation with in schools and in the community.

These campaigns created mass awareness among school children and teachers, and strength school rules and regulations as well as raise opportunities to take actions for environmental protection.

You can find the details in the reports below,

Activity 1.6 School based environmental education and awareness campaigns

*This project is supported by Japan Fund for Global Environment of the Environmental Restoration (JFGE) and by Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency (ERCA)