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| MHM club at Butalunga P/S |
<Activities conducted>
1. Teachers’
trainings on MHM, sex education (sexual and reproductive health) and gender
awareness in the three districts
2.
Awareness
meetings to communities including parents of students in order to introduce the
project and the importance of girls’ education in a safe MHM environment
3.
Establishment of
MHM clubs which will be conducting child-to-child approach on sanitary pads
making, MHM training, mentoring on issues of MHM and maintenance of school
facilities with supervision by school teachers. (Butambala only)
4.
Play Spot Messages
on the radio to raise awareness on support for girls’ education and increase on
reusable sanitary pad users
5. Conducted pad making trainings at the happy pad
promotional centre in Wakiso
1. Teachers’ trainings on MHM, sex education
(sexual and reproductive health) and gender awareness in the three districts
In an effort to build the capacity of teachers, workshops were organized in Mubende, Wakiso and Butambala districts. Originally a total 60 participants (1 senior woman teacher and 1 senior man teacher from 10 schools in each district) were targeted, but we included head teachers from each school and made it 90 as total. The activity was aimed at empowering teachers with the knowledge and skills they need to enable them conduct learner’s trainings from an informed point of view.
Teachers’ trainings were conducted as follows;
<Butambala> 7-06-2022
-22 teachers attended the training. All 10 schools were represented at the workshop
-8 teachers that missed the training from Kiwala, Lwamasaka and Kitagobwa were trained by their representatives before 13th-06-2022
<Mubende> 10-06-2022
-15 teachers from 10 schools and others like the District Secretary for Education, the Education Centre Chairperson and the Sub County Chief for Kibalinga attended the workshop
- 8 schools were represented during the teachers’ training and were taken through the different sessions. 2 schools (Christ the King and Kasaana Primary Schools) failed to attend but strategies on how to engage them were discussed and those two remaining schools conducted trainings in June during community sensitizations.
<Wakiso> 15-06-2022
-17 participants from 10 schools attended workshop
-All the 10 schools were represented during the training though some sent in one participant due to their busy schedule at their respective schools.
Activity Photos
for Teacher’s Trainings
<Butambala>
＜Mubende>
＜Wakiso>
2.
Community Awareness Meetings including parents of students in order to
introduce the project and the importance of girls’ education and a safe MHM
environment.
This activity was conducted in Butambala and Mubende
though only 2 schools were visited for community sensitization and 8 sensitizations
to be conducted in July in Mubende. Wakiso community sensitizations to be
conducted in July as well. The activity targeted 40 community members (men and
women) per each community of the supported school. A total of 30 meetings were
planned in the 3 districts to reach a total 1,200 community members.
The objective of the community awareness meetings
was to raise awareness on issues related to MHM, Gender awareness, and Sexual
and Reproductive Health. The awareness campaign aimed at reminding girls and
boys, parents, teachers and community leaders about their individual roles in
proper menstrual hygiene management. It also involved gender awareness as well
as information sharing on sexual and reproductive health.
Below is the district specific implementation
progress;
14th -06- 2022: Butende, Kiwala, Lwamasaka and Butalunga
15th -06- 2022: Nkokoma, Kitagobwa and Bule primary schools respectively
10 community awareness meetings were held reaching 180 out of the target 400 members of the PTA (Parents Teachers Associations) and SMC (School Management Committee) of each of the 10 beneficiary schools. More female (106) reached than the male (74)
To reach 220 more community members to meet the target, the project team scheduled meetings on;
14th July 2022: Lwamasaka and Butende primary
16th July 2022: Kitagobwa and Nawango Primary
21st July 2022: Kiwala, Nawango and Butalunga primary schools
<Mubende>
16th -06-2022: Katega Primary school
24th -06-2022: Christ the King
Two school communities, a total 111 participants reached. 46 (34 female, 12 male) from Katega primary. 65 (34 female, 31 male) from Christ the King primary school)
8 school communities to be reached on the scheduled dates below;
6th/07 2022: Kabowa P/S
7th/07 2022: Kiyiita and Gwanika P/S’s
8th/07 2022: Dyangoma P/S
9th /07 2022: Kasaana Primary and CAWODISA P/S
10th/07 2022: Ikula and Kasasa P/S’s
<Butambala>
3.
Establishment
of MHM clubs and conduct child-to-child approach on sanitary pads making, MHM
training, mentoring on issues of MHM and maintenance of school facilities with
supervision by school teachers.
This has been
conducted only in Butambala district where a total of 10 MHM clubs have been
formed where each has a total of 150 members (100 girls and 50 boys). Mubende
and Wakiso districts will conduct this activity in July 2022 during Community
sensitizations.
Activity
Photos – MHM Clubs in Butambala district
4.
Air Spot Messages to
raise awareness on support for girls’ education and increase on reusable
sanitary pad users
Spot messages
about Menstrual Hygiene management, girls’ education and reusable sanitary pad
are aired as follows;
·
Mubende via Luna FM 6 times a day
·
Wakiso via Voice Kiryagonja two times a
day
·
Butambala via Voice of Butende and Voice
of Kikambwe where 10 and 11 spot messages are plaid on a daily basis respectively.
Ø Impacts
·
Out of the spot adverts, during community
engagements at Katega P/S in Butanbala, one of the parents noted that they hear
about the spot adverts and it has helped them to understand more about the
relevance of MHM materials towards the education of the girl child.
·
A community member of Kitagobwa community
in Butambala district reported that continuous spot messages clearly remind the
members about their responsibility.
·
Two schools namely Little Flowers primary
school from Butende village and Wamala Foundation approached Butambala team for
support after listening to the spot messages on several occasions. They
confessed to the need of creating a girl friendly environment at schools.
5.
Conduct pad
training at the happy pad promotional centre
This
training is ongoing. So far, a total of 94 students from different classes who
attend in different sessions of training at Katalemwa Secondary School have
been trained and a total of 94 pads have been produced. These are conducted
from weekly from Monday to Saturday. 10 people from different communities
approached to get more information about the promotion center by phone calls
during radio talk shows, and others directly visited the center.
Ø Impacts
·
Students are
adapting to the use of reusable sanitary pads as they learnt the benefits over
the disposable ones.
·
Boys are eager
to learn how to make reusable sanitary pads and it has created room for access
to information regarding MHM issues by boys hence being supportive in that
regard.
Positive influences, Challenges,
Mitigations and Lesson learnt
