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.
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| A club member explaining on sex education to fellow pupils |
At
this time, we will report about Activity 2-2-3 ‘Facilitating Sex Education
session by MHM peer club’ conducted in November 2018.
Three MHM clubs (8girls&4boys)
were formed from 3 target schools. The purpose of these clubs was to spearhead Menstruation
Hygiene Management (MHM), gender awareness and sex education by reaching out to
fellow students through the child-child approach. Last time, The MHM clubs conducted
MHM session (one session in each of the three schools) toward their school pupils.
This time, they conducted Sex Education session, and the club members informed their
peers on physical changes between boys and girls, as well as helped to built
their capacities, especially for girls, to defend themselves from issues of
sexual exploitation and harassment
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Sex
education session going on by the club
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Sex education training by the club
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Pupils responding
questions raised above
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Pupils participating the session conducted by the club
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TOPICs
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Understanding reproductive health and sexuality issues
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Understanding puberty
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Early sexual intercourse and dangers associated with
it
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Examples of cunning words that boys and sugar daddies
use
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Forms of sexual violence
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Where to report sex abuse and harassment
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Value of education
OUTCOMEs
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Pupils understood the body changes such as physical
growth that occur in both boys and girls.
Ø Pupils knew some of danger for a
person being exposed in early sexual intercourse including death, unwanted
pregnancies, HIV/AIDS, and STIs (sexually transmitted infections), dropping out of school etc.
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Pupils were informed on some of major forms of sexual
harassments that mostly occur include; molestation, rape, defilement, early and
forced marriages etc.
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Pupils are able to report some sexual violence to
relevant responsible authorities. They can now mention places where they repot
sexual abuse and to whom they report including police, leaders including
political, religious, technical and other opinion leaders, schools, elders,
relatives among others.
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Pupils understood the value of education and the
purpose of staying in school.
Lastly,
through this activity, we believe the long-term impact will be the decrease in
school dropout.
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*This project is supported by Lush Japan Co., Ltd.
