Life Skills Education and Counseling - Kagulu - new_school

Visit by Manuela Ongyera on 2021-08-16

Report ID
13551
Created by
Manuela Ongyera
Created date
2021-08-17 13:14:53 UTC
Modified by
Manuela Ongyera
Modified date
2021-08-18 06:12:25 UTC
Trip Time
10:05-17:06 (7 h 1 m)
Village Time
12:12-15:00 (2 h 48 m)
Travel Time
4 h 13 m

Life Skills Education and Counseling non-teaching lesson

School
new_school 
Program
Life Skills Education and Counseling 
Visit Purpose
meet with a parent 
Total Attendance
13 
Notes
Purpose of the visit. Manuela went to Kagulu village to teach about causes and dangers of abortion. This lesson is aimed at educating community members that life comes from God therefore no one should kill and it’s in the tenth commandments. During the lesson, Manuela asked the participants questions if abortion is a problem in their community? One of the participant said yes, and mostly among young girls and theses young girls are being influenced by their mothers in fear of their husbands will blame them for not advising their daughters well. Another person also said that even mothers do carry out abortion because their husbands don’t want them to go for family planning and yet the mothers feel that the children they have are enough. Still during the lesson, Manuela asked the participants that what should be done to stop this evil practice in this community. Surprisingly, one of the participants said that as parents they should stop being too rude and arrogant to their daughters and their wives because if this girls has been sexually abused she will tend to keep quiet and decide to abort which is not good at all. The interesting part of this lesson was, one of the participants said that they should talk to their children about dangers of abortion, early sex practice and dangers of early marriage. Manuela was happy by this man’s suggestions. Manuela went on and asked the participants that what are the dangers of carrying out abortion, the suggested things like it can lead to death due to too much bleeding, it can cause infertility if the girls did it wrongly and above all it’s a sin before God. Finally , Manuela advised the parents to continue talking to their children about the values of education and dangers of early sexual practices. During the lesson Manuela noticed that in her class there was a 15year old girl who was sexually abused by her sister husband, Manuela is yet to find out about the case then she plans to work with the community Development Officers to handle the case. Meanwhile this girl is staying with the grandmother, she lost both of her her parents. 
Next Visit
2021-08-23 - Purpose: Manuela plans to teach about the Adolescent and Puberty stage.
Program Success
No
Program Critical Needs
Manuela needs to continue encouraging community members to talk to their children about their feature.
Program Ownership
None
Other Program Observations
None
Program Expected Of Village
They will be working on their home work
Program Staff Preparations Next Visit
Reading notes for the next visit
 

Report Photos

20223 Manuela was teaching about Abortion.
20226 That man was explaining the dangers of abortion referring to what happened to her 14 year old daughter.
20229 The young girl in orange skirt is 15 years old but was raped by her sisters husband and she is four months pregnant.