Career planning, gender based violence and litter picking,,

This has been tough but productive.

This week we taught s1 and s2 all about life skills and life goals. We had aspiring presidents, doctors, accountants and engineers. Only one aspiring musician and soccer player, which would be different to asking a group of 12 and 13 year olds in the UK. We then went through the different knowledge, skills and attitude you would need to get to these goals. A very useful 4 sessions for the kids, we hope.

On Tuesday we taught primary 6 all about male and female puberty. This meant drawing all the changes on some outlines of a boy and girl child. We had the whole she-bang, then lead the children to repeat "I love me" while explaining and showing all girls and boys are different sizes and shapes.

On Wednesday we taught S6 for the first time and it was so nice as Ella and I got to teach a session by ourselves. It was inspiring to actually teach a lesson and not have to be a slated. So good. We taught it all about contraception and teenage pregnancy. It was a very in depth conversation from penis size, to which contraception pill to use, but hopefully useful.

On Thursday, Joe and Juliet taught saving and proposal writing to the youth group, while Ella and I got started on events planning. By Friday we had two lessons and our community dialogue with the crime preventers and all the LC officials. It was gender roles and domestic violence and definitely was a very interesting discussion.

Certain view points were interesting, that a man can rape his wife if she refuses sex for example. But also we got across how bad this can be for the children in the house and how vulnerable it can make them. It was such a worthwhile and invigorating session. I am so glad to have done it, and make clear that men and women can be victims.

In the evening we held an advice centre session answering questions from condoms and HIV for the teenagers who came in.

Today we held a  litter pick in the market with Mukutu in the market place. It is meant to promote civic participation which it slightly did as some kids and others joined in.

Tomorrow we are teaching sanitary pads in the Muslim school and on Tuesday we wills run a parent session which should be good. So as we enter the penultimate week on placement wish us luck.

This week has also been good as we have made so a any friends involved in such a variety of charities out here. With such a creative mind, change can actually occur. From running new style nursery schools, to soccer clubs, to charities which help women's voices get heard and one which uses basketball to encourage boys and girls to play together - people working together is actually making a difference.

So with that, good bye. Thanks for all the support and lots of love xx