W W W. R E ACH A H A N D.O RG
JANUARY 2018
W EEK
O NE
INTRODUCTION Our
5th
Peer
Educators’
Academy came with the New Year, ready to train fresh change agents
who
will
empower
their peers all through 2018. These engaging, relentless and thoughtful young people (as we expected them to be) are full of
DAY ONE
enthusiasm to learn. This first
The lead facilitator Amon Mulyowa set the pace,
so that discipline within the class is emphasized
week was for introductions of
tasking the participants to form 5 uniquely
without losing the fun. As day one came to an
participants and the course,
named groups, that would be sub families during
end, Maureen Andinda, RAHU’s Monitoring,
setting
The
the academy. They are Auntentico, The Hive,
Learning & Evaluation Manager gave opening
catch was in the, introduction
Sober Serenade, Portal Elites and The Elites.
remarks, telling the participants about RAHU,
of social inclusion for young
They even came up with slogans and anthems
objectives and expectations of a peer educator
people with disabilities. Here’s
that they would identify with (bingo)!
and how to be a role model. Participants were
expectations.
how week one rolled out.
told to give feedback on today’s class whether The participants then nominated and voted for
positive or negative. The day was summed up,
their class representatives. Class rules were set
with the peers full of optimism for day two.