2022年8月22日月曜日

【Educational Environment】 Monthly Report Jun 2022 "Teachers’ trainings, awareness meetings to communities and establishment of MHM clubs "

 

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;

<Butambala>

 13th -06- 2022:  Kayenje, Ntolomwe and Nawango

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





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2022年8月3日水曜日

【Intern Activities】Exchange program with Creative Infant School Naguru

 

Hello! I'm Miyu Maki and I got sunburned. Be careful of sunlight.
As we approach the end of July, summer is really getting into full swing.

 Now, I am pleased to report on our May 27th interaction with Ugandan students on Zoom. This exchange session was the very first step in Daisy's project start-up that we are involved in. I hope you'll read this all the way to the end!


 The purpose of the discussion was to start the crowdfunding project, which is still in the process of fundraising, and to first interact with the people involved to see if there is a need for the project.
 Before participating in a Zoom meeting, I was nervous about whether I would be able to communicate well, but I soon was relaxed because the girls were friendly, I was then able to enjoy the discussion and I learnt a lot about the local situation.


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These are pictures of the actual Zoom in progress.

 We asked many questions such as; "Have you ever missed school when you got your period? Why is that?" They answered seriously even the sensitive questions.

 

 By listening to the real voices of the students, we were able to gain a greater sense of responsibility for our activities and a greater awareness of the people involved, and we learned a lot. Until now, I had conducted research on the local situation through newspaper and heard from NPOs such as GBN, but I realized that it is important to recognize the current situation of the target students by looking at their facial expressions.



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This is a picture of my favorite smiling face!

 Since this was also a chance to interact with the local children, I talked to them a little about Japan, and this is what they had to say with their smiling faces. They didn't seem to know much about Japan at all, but they were very curious to ask questions about Japan and about us! The smiles on the girls' faces were really cute, and I am really looking forward to meeting them in person!

 

 When we travel to Uganda to visit schools, we will also introduce Japan to them and interact online with Japanese high school students from the school we graduated. The juniors at our old school have been working very hard to prepare materials to introduce Japan, and this exchange is one of the things we are looking forward to in Uganda! We will do our best to facilitate the exchange time so that it will be an opportunity for both the high school students from our old school and the Ugandan students to receive some positive inspiration!

 

 In this issue, we reported on our plan of the exchange program with Nagle Elementary School. How was it? I am impressed by the time in which we can meet and exchange time together online. I hope that after my trip to Uganda, I will be able to continue this kind of exchange while visiting the area.

Well, I guess my next update will be during or after my trip!
I hope you look forward to my next blog!


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