Life Skills Education and Counseling - Nawampiti - Kivule Primariy School - Namutumba

Visit by Lorna Katagara on 2020-09-16

Report ID

10253

Created by

Lorna Katagara

Created date

2020-09-17 09:52:50 UTC

Modified by

Lorna Katagara

Modified date

2020-09-17 11:38:50 UTC

Trip Time

10:05-17:50 (7 h 45 m)

Village Time

12:00-15:00 (3 h 0 m)

Travel Time

4 h 45 m

Life Skills Education and Counseling community lesson

School

Kivule Primariy School 

Lesson Taught

Self Esteem Building,Relationship Skills: Love 

Girls Attended

7 

Boys Attended

3 

Total Student Attendance

10 

Teachers Attended

0 

Fathers Attended

0 

Mothers Attended

0 

Total Parent Attendance

0 

Staff Attendees

Lorna Katagara 

Government Attendees

None 

School Staff Attendees

Life Skills Teacher 

Visitor Attendees

None 

Total Attendance

0 

Learning Objectives

To understand the meaning of love, qualities one needs to look for in a love relationship or before marriage To understand the meaning of self esteem and how not having self esteem can affect someone.

Notes

Introduction Lorna was here to continue with the lesson on what love is and the qualities one should look for in a loving relationship or before they get involved into marriage. Lorna will also Teach about self esteem. Overview When Lorna arrived in the village, the community members were already lining up voting. Before going to the village Lorna had communicated to the community and they told her it may not be possible to meet but Sam the youth leader told Lorna it’s okay to come that she could meet the youth and teens. Lorna decided to meet the youth and in the next meeting, they will be the one to teach the rest of the community. The meeting started with a word of prayer and after that Samuel handed Lorna the constitution of their group for a Lorna to take a look. Lorna said she will take a look at give them feedback. After this a Lorna asked them to remind her what their last lesson was about and they mentioned love. Previously they were not able to complete this lesson because of the politicians so they continued from where we had stopped. Lorna asked them which part they stopped at and they couldn’t remember well and so Lorna reminded them they stopped on the qualities of love. Lorna mentioned as for the teens this is not so that they can start looking for partners now. Lorna mentioned this helps them to know that love is much more than that chapati, soda or small gifts they give them, love is not the one night stand. Knowing the qualities one wants in a relationship keeps them away from early pregnancies , early marriages and Abortion. It also enables them to keep in school. Previously Fiona mentioned money as a quality of love and Lorna asked the members what they think. Sam mentioned money in a relationship is good when you are all educated so that you can plan for it well and not make it turn into fighting unlike when one gets married to someone who did not study then it becomes an enemy. Lorna mentioned that that is in marriage but when your still looking for someone money can be here today and gone tomorrow then what will happen ?. One may be pretending to have money now and later there is nothing. Lorna cautioned the girls to always ask questions about the source of money , go further to ask where they live, ask about their Health status that is HIV status. These questions will prompt the person to withdraw themselves. Lorna mentioned qualities like someone who is patient , patient enough to wait for you to finish your studies, someone that will not push you to do what makes you uncomfortable like touching parts of your body that your not comfortable with, someone who sees you in public but not in hiding( the bush, behind classrooms) . If they can’t wait for you, they can’t have you they don’t care for you. Others were; God fearing, transparent, honest, trustworthy, Educated among others. They also talked of different ways to show others love in the community and also where brotherly sister love should stop and also father daughter, mother son love should stop among others. On the topic of self esteem, Lorna asked them what it meant and Jackson said okwekirizamu( believing in yourself). Lorna asked others what they think and they said the same thing. Lorna then asked where this self esteem come from and then they mentioned from oneself. This was correct and asked where else does self esteem stem from ?. They were quiet and Lorna added that it comes from friends, parents too. But most importantly it stems from oneself. If one does not believe in themselves , their ability to do something it can be a lack of self esteem. It can also come from how one carries themselves for example if one looks at themselves as poor, weak, and walks in this , everyone else will look at them that way. Lorna mentioned examples like if your parents keep calling you ugly, failure, these things can follow you and affect your self esteem if one does not believe in oneself. Lorna gave an example of someone who does not have self esteem will look for approval from else where and this is where girls find problems when a man/ boy tells them them are very beautiful and they feel like they are not they tend to believe what the man says . Lorna then gave them an assignment to write 3 things they like or know about themselves. She passed on pieces of paper and after 25 minutes she asked whether they were through and asked them to read out loud what they wrote down. Some of the answers were ; They are beautiful, hardworking, intelligent, God fearing, trustworthy, prayerful although others were able to get it right others still did not get it. She also gave them another assignment to write something about each other on different papers which they did and still others got it but others did not. Conclusion Lorna concluded that the exercise was meant for them to write about themselves what they believe in about themselves. Not to hear from someone else but themselves and when she asked how they felt about it they said good. Also Lorna said it was also to remove it from their head, write it down and finally be able to speak about it and walk in it. The exercise of writing about each other was also to build each others self esteem and know what the others think of them. Even though some failed at the writing , Lorna explained to them at the end. They also asked to write something bad or that they don’t like about themselves and how the can change it which they will be doing also next time. 

Next Visit

2020-09-23 - Purpose: Teach on gender roles and responsibilities

Program Success

No

Program Critical Needs

Relationship Skills

Program Ownership

Despite elections that were happening , Lorna still managed to meet a few youth

Other Program Observations

None

Program Expected Of Village

Mobilize themselves

Program Staff Preparations Next Visit

Call the chairman prior to the meeting

 

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