Life Skills Education and Counseling - Ikumbya - new_school

Visit by Lorna Katagara on 2021-09-24

Report ID

14136

Created by

Lorna Katagara

Created date

2021-09-28 10:51:11 UTC

Modified by

Lorna Katagara

Modified date

2021-09-28 12:47:11 UTC

Trip Time

10:20-18:00 (7 h 40 m)

Village Time

12:15-15:00 (2 h 45 m)

Travel Time

4 h 55 m

Life Skills Education and Counseling community lesson

School

new_school 

Lesson Taught

Steps in Making Good Decision 

Girls Attended

7 

Boys Attended

3 

Total Student Attendance

10 

Teachers Attended

0 

Fathers Attended

7 

Mothers Attended

15 

Total Parent Attendance

22 

Staff Attendees

Lorna Katagara 

Government Attendees

LC1 

School Staff Attendees

Class Teacher 

Visitor Attendees

None 

Total Attendance

0 

Learning Objectives

By the end of the lesson, community members are able to explain the bridge model to the rest of the community members.

Notes

The meeting started with an opening prayer, and a song and drama from the community members. The song was about one of the challenges that face our children that is HIV/AIDS. In the song, the message was to encourage everyone to play their part when it comes to fighting stigma and HIV/ AIDS and the consequences that come from one getting infected with HIV /AIDS. In the Drama, they acted out on peer pressure where we saw waiswa convincing Mary to have sex with him and despite Mary’s concerns of pregnancy and HIV/ AIDS, Waiswa mentioned that they will use a condom. We however see both parents of Waiswa and Mary encouraging them to keep Away from sex and concentrate on their studies however they did not listen to this advise and went ahead and Mary got pregnant. It was interesting because the song and the drama introduced us to the topic of the day the “ missing Life Skills”. Lorna asked the community members from the drama they saw, what went wrong, what was the missing life Skill or what Life Skill was used. One man mentioned that in the drama we saw Mary’s mum sitting her down and telling her not to listen to boys , to stay away from peer pressure to continue with her studies and bring them out of poverty but Mary wasn’t listening. We saw the missing Life Skills being listening and taking Action not just listening and doing nothing. Jane also mentioned that another missing link is parents continually talking to their children not just once but often and providing for them their basic needs and being exemplary that is role models.Lorna added here that the little things that make our children fall in trouble is small basic needs like knickers, pads and encouraged parents to buy these little things to avoid the costs later. Lorna added self esteem and confidence as a missing life skill in the children . Referring to the drama acted earlier , Lorna encouraged parents to instill these skills to their children so they are not pressured into sex or any other thing. To stand their ground no is a no. Another woman mentioned that Parent’s need to give work to boys as well referring to the drama acted that Waiswa was roaming around but Mary was always doing housework but we saw Waiswa looking for Mary still. She encouraged parents to distribute work evenly between girls and boys and this will reduce cases of idleness which leads them to fall into such traps. In conclusion we had 2 people explain to the community members what the bridge model is about. We had Ivan the secretary and Nabirye explain to the group which they did and was impressive . Lorna then came in to make some small changes and appreciated the community for coming to the meeting and asked them to teach others what they learnt also. 

Next Visit

2021-10-01 - Purpose: Introduce Decision making

Program Success

N/A

Program Critical Needs

Decision making

Program Ownership

Good participation

Other Program Observations

Hygiene is being maintained

Program Expected Of Village

Mobilize themselves in bigger numbers

Program Staff Preparations Next Visit

Call prior and prepare notes for the next meeting

 

Report Photos

Lorna teaching on the Bridge model

This lady was explaining the bridge model to the community members