Life Skills Education and Counseling - Bukhana - bukhana_primary_school - Luuka

Visit by Lorna Katagara on 2020-01-27

Report ID

8147

Created by

Lorna Katagara

Created date

2020-01-28 12:21:12 UTC

Modified by

Lorna Katagara

Modified date

2020-01-28 13:29:29 UTC

Trip Time

10:20-17:15 (6 h 55 m)

Village Time

12:15-15:05 (2 h 50 m)

Travel Time

4 h 5 m

Life Skills Education and Counseling community lesson

School

bukhana_primary_school 

Lesson Taught

Relationship Skills: Gender Roles,Relationship Skills: Managing Emotions 

Girls Attended

5 

Boys Attended

0 

Total Student Attendance

5 

Teachers Attended

1 

Fathers Attended

10 

Mothers Attended

10 

Total Parent Attendance

20 

Staff Attendees

Lorna Katagara 

Government Attendees

LC1,VHT 

School Staff Attendees

Life Skills Teacher 

Visitor Attendees

None 

Total Attendance

0 

Learning Objectives

Notes

Introduction Lorna started teaching Life Skills in this village here last year but the community’s attendence later dropped and Lorna decided to first focus on the School as the school semester was coming to a close. Overview After last weeks meeting, Lorna called back for feedback on what transpired in the meeting. Ndabe the Secretary informed Lorna that they decided to change location again and asked that when Lorna was to come, she will drive straight to the new meeting place. When Lorna arrived the village, she went to the secretary’s home where she picked him and together went to the meeting place. Bukhana is a very big village. They drove to the meeting place and there they met the chairman and his father already sifted waiting at the meeting place. They waited for the community members to come and at exactly 1pm Lorna decided to start the meeting. The meeting was opened with a word of prayer and the chairman opened the meeting by introducing Lorna to the community saying that she works with Kibo and that this was not her first time in the village. He said that he personally stopped Lorna from coming because he knows how much fuel is spent coming to the village and the attendence is low. He said he felt bad and ashamed and told Lorna that she should first give the community time. He urged them that this time to please attend the lessons since they as a community have benefitted a lot from the Kibo programs of WASH, Mvule and Community and Social Empowerment. After addressing the community he asked Lorna to deliver what she had for them. Lorna greeted the community and introduced herself a new to the community members since most of them were seeing her for the first time. She briefly told them what Life Skills was about and told them that they will slowly know more about the program as they continue. Lorna did a review of the previous lessons Gender roles and responsibilities and how to manage anger. However because most of the people were new she gave them a background of how this topic came up as men were complaining about their wives and the way they were behaving towards them. After the preview, they discussed the different roles and responsibilities of both men and women in the family. Lorna told the community that a family’s wellbeing concerns two people and therefore if they are working well together and meeting each others needs then even the children are happy and have something to learn from their parents. Lorna mentioned that these to,es should be taught to the children while they are young so as when they grow up they will not depart from them. One frustrated woman mentioned that if even the man cannot serve his own food when she the woman has cooked and told him she was going some where leaving the food for him that if she doesn’t come bs k on time to serve then what makes Lorna think that the men can actually help share the responsibilities?. Lorna asked if this was true . The men responded that it’s because the food is not “Sweet without them”. Lorna mentioned that if this was the case then it should change. She told them their wife has already cooked surely they can do the serving. One woman mentioned her husband cannot even light the stove and he was present in the meeting too making people laugh. Lorna mentioned that no one ever became less of a man by doing these things and also advised the women not to minimize their husbands when they help with house chores. Conclusion On parental responsibility towards their children, Lorna reminded them that as parents a child does not belong to one person but two people and therefore anything regarding the child should be both parents responsibilities. For example medical care, food, clothing , shelter, physiological wellbeing of the child among others. She also asked them to prepare in time especially when it comes to children going back to school to see to it that their children are not missing school because they are being sent back home for some requirements. A sheik also added that they should also instill religion in their children and good morals. Lorna also discouraged parents turning children against their parents this was especially to the women who turn their children against their fathers. 

Next Visit

2020-02-05 - Purpose: Teach communication skills- Communication styles and behaviors.

Program Success

Yes, Lorna talked with the school headmaster inquiring about the primary seven pupils who sat Primary Living Examinations last year and she was happy that some of the students that attended Life Skills class one managed to score 18 points ,Shantal the deaf girl scored 26 points all in Division 2. This was great news,Lorna will pass by the school on another visit to check on overall performance.

Program Critical Needs

Communication Skills.

Program Ownership

The community attendence and participation

Other Program Observations

They are requesting for a borehole although the government promised them one.

Program Expected Of Village

Mobilize themselves for the next meeting.

Program Staff Preparations Next Visit

Call the chairman to inform him of the next visit date.

 

Report Photos

This lady is one of the leaders on the committee and she was encouraging the community to take what is being taught to them seriously if they wanted a healthy relationship in their families.She told them of how her and husband share roles in her home and they are happy.She also advised fellow women to submit to their husbands