#PEA Week 1 Newsletter

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WEEK ONE • LEADERSHIP TRAINING • COMMUNICATION SKILLS • NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES • INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES • FUN, LAUGHTER & BE YOUNG • MENTORSHIP • SRHR INFORMATION & SKILLS • PRESENTATION SKILLS

WEEK ONE P R ESENTATI ON SKI L L S

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INTRODUCTION S RH R INFO RMAT IO N & S K ILLS

What a way to start a decade!

The 7th Edition of the Peer Educators Academy is here! Kicking off with a training of the facilitators on January 3rd, we kicked off the first week (January 6th - 11th) digging deep into introductions, setting expectations, our culture and basics on Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights. Here are the highlights for each day of the week! You can still follow online via the hashtag #PEA2020.

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he Academy Lead facilitator, Amon Mulyowa, who is a Behavior Change Communication Specialist at Communication Consultant Uganda conducted sessions on introductions, setting the climate and setting expectations for the Academy.

Participants created (6) social groups. They were expected to come up with a group name, group captain, group motto, group anthem and their expectations from the academy. A random selection criteria was used to divide the participants into groups. The groups created selected different mentors from the RAHU team and these included;

Team introductions

1. The Delighters - Mentors

Winnie Watera and Waiswa Batambuze Participants - expectations

2. Dynamics - Mentor

Doreen Kihembo and Paul Waiswa 3. Exodus - Mentor

Gilbert Beyamba 4. Bassemyekozo - Mentor

Allan Kinani, Sarah Kyebambe, Ibrahim Nkonge 5. Panthers

Victoria Miracle Chemutai and Paul Wanyama 6. Mutima

Helen Patricia Amutuhaire and Clinton Tumanye

The participants also got introduced to the Reach a Hand Uganda family who are available throughout the academy.

After breakfast, the sessions resumed with RAHU team leader, Humphrey Nabimanya welcoming the participants to the Academy and RAHU Family. He gave a brief background of where RAHU started from and why they were attending the Academy.

He stressed that it’s the young people to champion the efforts of empowering themselves to have more productive and high-quality lives.

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ur Programs Officer, Helen Patricia Amutuhaire, led participants into understanding the Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights landscape, youth-friendly services and what it means, and understanding who a young person or an adolescent is. Before this, participants were divided into groups to broaden their understanding of how SRHR is looked at culturally, religiously, politically, socially, and economically.

Hellen continued explaining, the different projects and activities that Reach A Hand is engaged in which are to empower young people, to help them in making informed choices, plus the areas of focus as Reach A Hand Uganda, for example, GBV, HIV/AIDS awareness.

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In the midmorning session, Waiswa Batambuze our Communications and Advocacy Manager took participants through a session on Communication do’s and dont’s. The significance of this was that young people are going to interact with different people in communities hence they ought to understand good communication skills. Waiswa went ahead to take participants through our approaches to communications.

We concluded day 2 with Herman Namanya our Programs Officer taking participants through a session on Safeguarding. Safeguarding denotes measures to protect the health, well-being and human rights of individuals, which allow people especially children, young people and vulnerable adults to live free from abuse, harm and neglect.

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elen bounced back to do a session on Sexuality. She started with familiarizing the participants with the components of it and participants were divided into their respective groups to discuss their understanding of sexuality which they later presented to the whole class. The purpose of the session was to open the participants to the different circles of sexuality which are; sensuality, sexualization, intimacy, and behaviour.

Maureen Andinda our Business, Strategy, and Development Manager facilitated a session on Gender Transformative Approaches (GTA) and its ultimate impact. The session went ahead to assess how society sets gender roles for boys and girls which due to this, they are assigned different responsibilities without specifically looking at their individual abilities.

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oreen Ninsiima a Programs Coordinator from Health plus Development Communications (HeDCO) kicked off with a session on Adolescent Growth & development with a focus on the Human anatomy, Adolescence, Puberty, Post-Puberty.

She took participants through adolescent transition and different body changes in both boys and girls which led them into understanding the various SHRH needs and how they can be addressed for example body odour, menstruation in girls.

The day was wrapped up by a peer inspirational session from our very own Azande Rhoda from the 2018 Peer Educators Academy. It was easy for the participants to relate given similarity in most of her experience. Rhoda aka Becky also features in the Kyaddala TV series which is our flagship show to communicate issues of SRHR to young people.

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e were excited to wrap up the first week with more vibe as we started. In the morning session participants were taken through Menstruation, Menstrual Hygiene Management and after the break, they were taught how to make reusable sanitary pads using pads. Catherine Guntesse and Florence Nabukenya from Public Health Ambassadors, Uganda and our very own Peer Educator, Nalubwama Jaliah were our facilitators for the day.

The participants were versed with facts about menstruation, the underlying misconceptions and myths, the importance (for boys) to be involved such that they are able to support girls/women in their lives and fight the stigma around it.

We were later joined by our cultural icon Nutty Neithan, who is a performing artist, who sat in to learn how to make reusable sanitary pads. He shared a talk with participants and advised them against drug abuse, encouraged them to keep in school and develop talents.

We learn as we have fun. We had dance choreographers after the sessions come in to share some light dance moves as participants danced as a group.

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