Health Education - Nawandyo A

Visit by marianamukose on 2021-11-29

Report ID
15136
Created by
marianamukose
Created date
2021-11-30 09:02:11 UTC
Modified by
marianamukose
Modified date
2021-12-02 06:47:42 UTC
Trip Time
10:06-18:33 (8 h 27 m)
Village Time
12:21-16:17 (3 h 56 m)
Travel Time
4 h 31 m

Health Education Lesson

Program
Health Education 
Lesson Taught
 
Men Attendees
Women Attendees
16 
Staff Attendees
 
Government Attendees
LC1 
Visitor Attendees
Maria Namukose 
Total Attendance
19 
Notes
Maria went to Nawandyo A, to teach about Family planning, it’s benefits to the mother, children or baby, father and community. The chairperson thanked everyone for turning up, he opened the meeting with a word of prayer. He then invited Maria to talk to the community members. Maria thanked all members for coming and introduced the topic as family planning, benefits of family planning to the mothers, baby, father and the Community. The meeting started by defining the term family planning; it is when a woman stops producing, it is when a woman takes long to get another child” saida said. Maria later gave a clear definition saying it is when an individual or couple decide on the number of children and the space and timing between their birth. During the meeting, members together with Maria shared the different types of family planning mentioning them one by one. Natural and artificial family planning then members shared the different artificial types of family planning and the different natural family planning. Prosy said that some women use local herbs to prevent pregnancy , others go to witchdoctor to help them with local herbs but the witchdoctor just play sex with them saying that the herbs only work when you first have sex with them. Still Saida said that withdraw would be easy and good natural family planning but men find it too difficult to apply. Maria encouraged members to agree on every different type of family planning as a couple or together as husband and wife to avoid what would come after. Further still, the benefits of family planning to the father,mother, baby and community as discussed and Loy said that spacing children brings back lost love between mother and father and even the baby feels loved by both parents. The chairperson thank Kibo staff for empowering this village with knowledge about their health, he then closed with a word of prayer. 
Partner Program
Health Education 
Lesson Use Examples
None 
Next Visit
2021-12-06 - Purpose: Uganda major infectious disease and communicable disease.
Program Success
None
Program Critical Needs
There is need for more health education lessons.
Program Ownership
None
Other Program Observations
During a simple walk around the meeting center, the homes around have hand washing facilities in their compound.
Program Expected Of Village
To mobilize the community members to come for the health education meeting.
Program Staff Preparations Next Visit
To prepare the next lesson and also call the village mobilizers to mobilize the community members for the next health lesson.
 

Report Photos

24277 Nawandyo A, village Maria teaching about family planning
24310 Nawandyo A village, Maria was demonstrating the different types of family planning to members.