Sexual Health Outreach to 1000 youth in Uganda

 
$7,482
$7,518
Raised
Remaining
May 1, 2013

STF-NYC/GLOBEMED PROJECT REPORT JANUARY-MARCH 2013

Pupils of Wianaka P7 during a school sensitization
Pupils of Wianaka P7 during a school sensitization

STF-NYC/GLOBEMED PROJECT REPORT

JANUARY-MARCH 2013                 

28th /4/2013

INTRODUCTION

 Straight Talk Foundation-Nwoya Youth Center is in partnership with Globe Med at UCLA to implement sexual Health outreach project targeting youths in Anaka, Nwoya District in Northern Uganda. This year we are targeting to reach out to 3000 young youth in Anaka, Nwoya District.

Project objective: To make an impact on the lives of about 1000 youth in Nwoya district by allowing general youth groups as well as special needs groups access to sexual health education, services and supplies.

 Specific objectives:

v To increase young people’s utilization of HIV prevention and other ASRH services at Nwoya youth Center in One year.

v To increase adoption of safer sex practices in adolescents through abstinence, condom use and reduced partners and faithfulness.

v To increase access to information and services for special needs groups in Nwoya district

Key project Activities.

  • Sexual reproductive health outreaches to schools.
  • Sanitary pads support to young girls.
  • Training of senior women teachers.
  • Goats Monitoring.

 

Project achievements

For the last three months starting January to march 2013, STF-NYC managed to reach out to a total of 1,062 youths (Male =427, Female = 635).

 

SUMMARY OF ACHIEVEMENTS

S/N ACTIVITIES PLANNED TARGET ACTUAL ACHIEVEMENT COMMENT

1

Sexual reproductive health outreaches to schools.

2000 (800male and 800 female)

962 (422 male,540 female)

This target was not easy to realize because the center relying on budgets from other projects at the center to reach out to the schools since the activities are related and supplements each other.

2

Sanitary pads support to young girls.

110 young girls

80 girls supported

Only 80 girls received disposable pads as we planned to start giving out reusable pads in the second quarter, and then can enroll all the 110 girls. The organization has already got a firm that will start supplying us with reusable pads this quarter.

3

Training of senior women teachers.

20 teachers

00

Yet to be implemented in this second quarter.

4

Goats Monitoring.

20 young mothers

20 young mothers monitored

Out of the 20 young mothers given goats only 15 of them are taking good care of their goats. An average of 3 goats per each young mother. It was noticed that these goats were given while they were very young and it takes time to start bearing young ones.

 

 

  • Sexual reproductive health outreaches to schools: Nwoya youth center conducted a total of 15 school outreach sensitization and 9 community outreach sensitization on sexual reproductive health  in Anaka and Purongo Sub-counties- Nwoya District. 

The outreaches helps the youth to discuss and get information about sexual reproductive health, life skills and sexuality issues that affects their life so that they are able to make informed decision  regarding their health by adopting to safer sex practices and utilization of reproductive health services for a healthy generation of youths. At least 50% of the youths know most of the basics concerning sexual reproductive health.

This can be seen by the increase in the utilization of condoms (10,00pieces), IEC materials (5,000 copies), youth accessing safe male circumcision and youths accessing STI’s treatment at the various health centers in Nwoya.

 The center reached a total of 962 adolescents with sexual reproductive health messages (422 males, 540 females).

Quotes: “this program helps the pupils to stay and live a healthy life free of HIV and also encourages pupils to remain at school. Right now I help to advice my peers against doing bad things and I respect my parents and teachers.”  Nickson 15 years, P5, Got Apwoyo Primary school.

 

  • Sanitary pads support to young girls: The sanitary pads support is intended to promote girl child education through retention and regular school attendance by young girls. The beneficiaries of these pads now have no reason to abscond or drop out of school since they have regular supply of these pads throughout the year, so need only to concentrate on studies. The schools and parents of these girls are very thankful to Globemed and Nwoya youth center for this initiative and they are ready to support this initiative as they have seen great improvement in performance among their girls and good concentration on studies.

A total of 80 young girls from seven different schools are benefiting from the supply of these sanitary pads while the rest of the school community are benefiting from the sexual reproductive health sensitization and are informed on making good use of the local materials to make local pads and be informed on issues concerning their body changes and health.

The beneficiary schools for the pads include; Kulamuka Primary school, Bidati Primary school, Alokolum Gok Primary school, Aparanga Primary school, Purongo Primary school, Oruka Primary school and Gotapwoyo Primary school.

 

Quote: I feel very relieved while using disposable pads. I come to school with confidence and attend lessons without any interference unlike those days when I would not be stable in class due to menstruation.

  • Goats monitoring: this project is benefiting 20 young mothers and each young mother received 2 goats (male and female). All these goats are healthy and doing well according to the monitoring report. Most beneficiaries as per now have 3 goats on average.

 

Quote:I feel empowered since its easier for me to get loan and in case my child is sick, I can sell one goat to help treat him especially when I don’t have any other source of money”..........., Oliver, a young mother from Lamoki village in anaka.

 

  • Youth friendly activities eg Games and sports, counseling, IEC material distribution and health talk at the center.

ü  Thanks to Globemed for improving on the youth center games and sports facilities like football,net ball, volley ball, Ludo, draft,snake and ladder and scrable. This has attracted more youths at the center coming to play and get information on sexuality,SRH and life skills as they are involved into health talk and counseling. The center recieves 30-50 youths each day on average.

ü  The center also distributed IEC material to the young adolescents both to in school and out of school youth to help reach them with knowlegde on SRH, sexuality and life skills so that they grow up healthy and able to take good decision that does not put their life at a risk. A total of 5,000 copies of straight talk and young talk papers were distributed to the young adolescents this quarter at the static center and outreach sites.

ü  Condoms awareness and distribution to young adolescents: A total of 10,000 pieces of condoms were distributed freely to the young adolescents during this quarter as a way of promoting safer sex practices and utilization of sexual reproductive health services to protect against STI’s and promotes family planning practices among the youths. The majority beneficiaries of these condoms are mostly youth out of school. The challenge here is the lack of female condoms especially for females interested.

These condoms are being supplied by the ministry of health through Anaka hospital to Nwoya youth center.

ü  Health talk is done to create a forum for peers to freely discuss issues that affects their life and are guided to provide solutions for these problems. The common issues raised and discussed by the peers include STI’s, sexuality and life skills.

 

[A group of youth attending health talk at the youth center.]

The list of the 12 schools reached with STF/NYC-Globemed project in Anaka and Purongo Sub-counties this quarter.

S/N Name of school in Purongo Parish

1 Purongo Primary school Pawatomero

2 Purongo hill Primary school Pawatomero

3 Aparanga Primary school Paromo

4 Olwiyo Primary school Pawatomero

5 Oruka Primary school Paromo

6 Got Apwoyo Primary school Latoro

 

S/N Name of school in Anaka Parish

1 Anaka Primary school Nwoya TC

2 Anaka central Primary school Nwoya TC

3 Kulu amuka Primary school Kuluamuka

4 Alokulum Gok Primary school Pabali

5 Patira Primary school Ywaya

6 Bidati Primary school Pangora

 

Challenges

  • It took the center time to find out a firm/company producing reusable pads in Uganda until this year 2013 that is when the center came into contact with Afripads who is going to supply us.
  • Unstable power source to help facilitate office work and this make it difficult to run the office.
  • Transport facility to help implement project work is a problem. The center has one motorbike in good condition that it uses to do project work, one bike is down and the other one was taken back after the project ended.
  • Riding gears like helmets, jackets, boots and gloves are a big challenge and this puts our security in danger together with the Grow Team.
  • Inadequate office space to implement project work effectively.
  • Delayed funding and only funding for sanitary pads was transferred.

Recommendations

  • Need to process and transfer the funds early to help timely implementation of activities.
  • Need to allow the Globemed partner within Gulu to take over and continue with the sanitary pad project since Globemed partnership with Nwoya youth center is soon ending.
  • Training of the senior women teachers will be done in the second quarter which starts April – June 2013.
  • Need to take note of the GROW team means of transport especially when we are going to the field since the center has challenges of transport facilities.
  • The center request that Globemed through the GROW team may donate for the center a camera since the one we had is no longer functioning.

 

Report compiled by:  Alfred Olweny

                                  Center coordinator Nwoya Youth Center

                                  0774848448 / 0716848448

Email: Alfred.olweny@yahoo.com or olwenyalfred@gmail.com

 

 

“TO GETHER WE CAN”

Bidati Primary school pupils receiving pads
Bidati Primary school pupils receiving pads
In the photo, Oliver with her 3 goats.
In the photo, Oliver with her 3 goats.
Youth relaxing as they play games
Youth relaxing as they play games
Youth relaxing as they play games
Youth relaxing as they play games
Pupils posing with copies of Young Talk
Pupils posing with copies of Young Talk
A group of youth attending health talk
A group of youth attending health talk
Feb 5, 2013

STF-NYC/GLOBEMED PROJECT REPORT DECEMBER 2012

Pupils of Patira P7 School
Pupils of Patira P7 School

  

STF-NYC/GLOBEMED PROJECT REPORT

OCTOBER TO DECEMBER 2012                 

28th /12/2012

INTRODUCTION

 STF-NYC is in partnership with Globe Med at UCLA to implement sexual Health outreach project targeting 1000 youths in Northern Uganda in Nwoya District.

Project objective: To make an impact on the lives of about 1000 youth in Nwoya district by allowing general youth groups as well as special needs groups access to sexual health education, services and supplies.

 Specific objectives:

v To increase young people’s utilization of HIV prevention and other ASRH services at Nwoya youth Center in One year.

v To increase adoption of safer sex practices in adolescents through abstinence, condom use and reduced partners and faithfulness.

v To increase access to information and services for special needs groups in Nwoya district

Key project Activities

  • School sensitization outreaches on adolescent sexual reproductive health both in Primary and secondary schools.
  • Sanitary pads education and distributions.
  • Games and sports (Youth friendly services) for ASRH.
  • Condom awareness and distribution to young adolescents.
  • Provide HIV prevention/ASRH to special groups (PWDs, Young positives, Young mothers etc)
  • Gender structured talks (Boy/Girl Talk) for out of school adolescence.
  • Goats Monitoring.

 

 

Project achievements

In the last three months of October to December, STF-NYC managed to reach out to a total of 3,307 youths (Male =1843, Female = 1464).

  • School sensitization outreaches to both Primary and secondary schools:

Nwoya Youth center conducted a total of 43 school sensitization and 17 community sensitization on adolescence sexual reproductive health (ASRH) in Anaka and Purongo Sub-counties- Nwoya District.

The intention of this activity is to provide adolescent sexual reproductive health to allow youths to make informed decisions about issues concerning their health by adopting to safer sex practices and utilization of reproductive health services so that we can have a healthy generation of youths.

The center reached a total of 1,537 adolescents with sexual reproductive health messages (854 males, 683 females). Some of the topics discussed included safe male circumcision, Body changes, cross generational sex, drug abuse, gender based violence, teenage pregnancy, Girls education and HIV prevention among others.

Quotes: “The school sensitization and the provision of young talk by Nwoya youth center has made us informed on reproductive health issues surrounding us. I am abstaining from sex and promise to study up to university level before getting married.”  Juliet 16 years, P6, Patira Primary school. 

                                                 

  • Games and sports (Youth friendly services).

 STF-NYC reaches out to the adolescents through games and sports both in schools, community and static center. The purpose of this is to engage the youths in productive activities as opposed to getting involved in risky behaviors that would endanger their health. A total of 07 games and sports events were organized both in schools and in the community and these attracted 849 people. These games and sports has benefited the youths since it has a package of sexual reproductive health sensitization which makes them informed about their health and able to utilize and access reproductive health services and help them avoid engaging into risky behaviors like early sex, drug abuse, Stealing, Disco dance, gambling among others instead to take sports as a healthy productive leisure. This games and sports has unifies the youths through the interactions among the youths which in turn builds on more peace in the community.

 

Quote:Sports has made me more flexible and healthy than before and has created more friends and more informed through the daily interaction among my team mates. I am able to share my problems easily with my fellow friend. I no longer complain of boredom”Otto,29years,boda man

  

  • Sanitary pads education and distributions: The sanitary pads education and distribution is being appreciated by the all schools, parents, pupils and the District since these has remained a big challenge in that the girls find it difficult to access these pads due to the lack of materials and poverty thus may choose between absconding schools for the periods they are experiencing menstruation or decides to drop out from school to avoid shame that may be caused by blood stain from menstruation.

There are 80 young girls from seven different schools benefiting from the supply of sanitary pads while the rest of the young girls in school and the community are benefiting from the sanitary pads education to empower them on how they can make use of the local materials to make local pads and be informed on issues concerning their body changes and health.

A total of 318 girls benefited from sanitary pad education including the 80 girls who are being supplied with sanitary pads.

The schools where the 80 beneficiaries came from include Kulamuka Primary, Bidati Primary, Alokolum Gok Primary, Aparanga Primary, Purongo Primary, Oruka Primary and Gotapwoyo Primary schools.

 

Quote: I feel very relieved while using disposable pads. I come to school with confidence and attend lessons without any interference unlike those days when I would not be stable in class due to menstruation.

  • Providing HIV prevention/Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health awareness to special groups: These categories face a lot of discrimination and stigma in the community yet they need our support in terms of access to services and health information. Therefore, this awareness aims at empowering the vulnerable groups like young positives, Persons with disability, child mothers among others. These can be seen by the good number of informed vulnerable groups accessing health services as per the regular visits made to the health centers. Some of the health information given includes; Prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT), Family Planning, Safe male circumcision, HIV counseling and testing, food and Nutrition etc as a component that would empower them and live a healthy life.

A total of 102 (Male=40, Female=62) special groups reached with HIV prevention messages and ASRH.

Quotes: This program has empowered me especially on issues relating to family planning and PMTCT which i used not to believe and have clear understanding of the benefits but I am now a beneficiary of these services since I feel relieved with my family planning services and also protected as I access PMTCT services. I request that more attention be given to the vulnerable groups in terms of health services to better their health.

 

Condoms awareness and distribution to young adolescents: A total of 1,027 pieces of condoms distributed to youths including condom education and demonstration. Condom education helps youth get to know how to make good use of condoms as one way of HIV prevention, avoiding unnecessary/unwanted pregnancies and other sexual transmitted infections. NYC demonstrates how a condom can be put on and used effectively and consistently. This is done both at the center and outreaches in the community to help reach out to youths in the villages.

A total of 348 adolescent sensitized on condoms (Male=242 and female= 106).

  

Quote: I use condom as a family planning measure and also to protect myself from sexually transmitted infection. The good thing with condoms is that it has no side effect as compared to other family planning methods so I advice all youths who are sexually active to use condoms to remain healthy and safe from STI’s and as a way of avoiding unwanted pregnancies common among youths.  

………Ronnie 21 years old boda boda man from Paduny village anaka. 

 

  • Gender structured talks (Boy/Girl Talk) for out of school adolescence. This activity is done both at the center and in the community and its done to encourage full participation of both boys and girls in Sexual Reproductive Health. Most adolescents are reserved and have fear to share freely with other people, especially when mixed together; this makes it difficult to understand the issues affecting the Boys/Girls as they would be fearing one another. Therefore, adolescents are grouped  according to their sex and engaged into discussions relating to their reproductive health issues which include; staying safe and healthy, sexual transmitted infections, safe male circumcision, cross generational sex, HIV testing and disclosure, body changes, teenage pregnancy and ABC messages as a way of HIV prevention.

A total of 153 people reached in this activity. (Male=85 Female=68)

Through this activity, I was able to realize that adolescent influence peoples behaviors and its time you know how to manage your adolescents to avoid risky behaviors …………….Said (Gloria, 15years, in pabali Village Anaka)

 

Monitoring goat’s project: this project benefited 20 young mothers and each received 2 goats both male and female. All these goats are healthy and doing well according to the previous report.

 

 

The list of the 20 schools reached with STF/NYC-GLOBEMED project in Anaka and Purongo Sub-counties.

SCHOOLS IN PURONGO SUB-COUNTY.

S/N Name of school  Parish

Purongo P/S  Pawatomero

Puropbgo hill P/S Pawatomero

Aparanga P/S Paromo

Paraa P/S Pabit

Wii anaka P/S Pabit

Olwiyo P/S Pawatomero

Oruka P/S Paromo

Gotapwoyo P/S Latoro

Purong Seed Sec School Pawatomero

 

SCHOOLS IN ANAKA SUB-COUNTY

S/N Name of school Parish

Anaka P/S Nwoya TC

Anaka central P/S Nwoya TC

Anaka public P/S  Nwoya TC

Kulu amuka P/S  Kuluamuka

St luke te-olam P/S Todora

Patira P/S Ywaya

Agung P/S  Todora

Lamoki P/S  Ywaya

Bidati P/S  Pangora

10 Alokolum gok P/S  Pabali

11 Pope Paul anaka S.S Nwoya TC

 

CHALLENGES

Lack of stable power to facilitate office work has made it hard when it comes to writing project reports and any work that needs computer.

High demand from some community who are after material gains to help solve their problems.

Challenges of transport facilities to help in outreaches, the center has only 3 motorbikes attached to projects and this means we have to borrow from these project in case of outreaches and this causes delays and interfere with activity implementation. One bike is down.

Riding gears like helmets, jackets, boots and gloves are a big challenge and this puts our security in danger together with the Grow Team.

Staffing is also a challenge in that, out of 4 staffs the center now have only 3 staffs to help work on all the projects and this in turn slows or delays activities of some projects.  

Inadequate office space to accommodate all organization activities and staffing

RECOMMENDATIONS

 Need to keep building on a project and identify project activities within those already being funded by other donors to help in the sustainability and continuity of the project.

Need to have more discussion on logistics to perfect the project implementation. Things like protective gears, computer and transportation of the Grow team to the field.

 

Report compiled by:  Alfred Olweny

                                  Center coordinator Nwoya Youth Center

                                  0774848448 / 0716848448

Email: Alfred.olweny@yahoo.com or olwenyalfred@gmail.com

 

LONG LIVE GLOBEMED LONG LIVE STRAIGHT TALK FOUNDATION

Anaka Volley Ball Club
Anaka Volley Ball Club
Agung FC Vs
Agung FC Vs
Alokulum Gok Pupils with their pads
Alokulum Gok Pupils with their pads
Oruka Primary school pupils with their pads
Oruka Primary school pupils with their pads
Condom awareness sessions
Condom awareness sessions
Goat project beneficiaries
Goat project beneficiaries

Links:

Jan 2, 2013

End of the year updates!

School Outreach - Beatrice
School Outreach - Beatrice

Greetings to all of our family and friends!

We hope that you are having a wonderful holiday season! Both the GlobeMed at UCLA chapter and the Nwoya Youth Center staff are on holiday as of this writing and it’s safe to say that we are cherishing our time spent with loved ones. A more thorough and quantitative project report will be coming from Alfred, the center manager, as he returns from holiday, but we will give you brief updates for now!

One of the biggest updates from the center is that two of our counselors, Beatrice and Charles, have learned how to ride (drive) motorbikes! Previously, they were often driven out to the field and would call to be picked up when their sessions were over. Their new abilities allow them to ride to schools on their own, providing independence and allowing the center’s programs to work more efficiently, as communication and fuel costs have been lessened. We are very proud of their efforts and excited to see pictures of them on their bikes!

We would also like to spend a brief moment thanking one of our nearest and dearest friends and partners, Okello Stephen, for all of his work with the Nwoya Youth Center. In December, Stephen, one of the Nwoya Youth Center’s longest tenured counselors moved back to Gulu, a larger city two hours outside of Anaka, to pursue other academic and career opportunities. We thank him so much for his dedication to the community and to us, his partners, and we wish him nothing but the best in all his future ambitions! He will surely be missed, but we know he has great things ahead.

This also means that the Nwoya Youth Center is in the process of hiring a new counselor to help with project implementation. We are so happy to hear that we will have one more person to add to our family and to help achieve all of the work that we aim to do!

Within our chapter, we wrapped a great fall quarter, which began with the arrival of thirty-one fresh and energetic faces and ended even more energy and $2365 (and counting!) for the Nwoya Youth Center. Next quarter, we will be partnering with BFI at UCLA to put on a Valentine’s Day event called Achy Breaky Heart, from which proceeds will benefit the Nwoya Youth Center and Save A Child’s Heart. We will be hosting our annual Global Get Down, a talent show featuring some of UCLA’s finest musical and dance performers. We are also currently in the process of planning for an event for the World Day of Social Justice on February 20.

We are so thankful to have our chapter and partner’s endless commitment, both of time and love, and cannot wait to see how much we achieve in the future. Thank you for your support in 2012 and we’ll see you in 2013!

Happy New Year! Long live GlobeMed and long live the Nwoya Youth Center!

GlobeMed at UCLA

School Outreach - Charles
School Outreach - Charles
GlobeMed at UCLA and Nwoya Youth Center Staff
GlobeMed at UCLA and Nwoya Youth Center Staff
Farewell and many well-wishes to Okello Stephen!
Farewell and many well-wishes to Okello Stephen!

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Oct 2, 2012

STF-NYC/GlobeMed at UCLA Project Report Sept 2012

Got Apwoyo Sanitary Pad Beneficiaries
Got Apwoyo Sanitary Pad Beneficiaries

 STF-NYC/GLOBEMED PROJECT REPORT

JULY TO SEPTEMBER 2012                 

24/09/2012

INTRODUCTION

 STF-NYC and GlobeMed at UCLA is partnering to implement sexual Health outreach project targeting 1000 youths in Northern Uganda in Nwoya District.

Project objective: To make an impact on the lives of over 1000 youth in Nwoya district by allowing general youth groups as well as special needs groups access to sexual health education, services and supplies.

 Specific objectives: To increase young peoples utilization of HIV prevention and other ASRH services at Nwoya youth Center in One year. To increase adoption of safer sex practices in adolescents through abstinence, condom use and reduced partners and faithfulness. To increase access to information and services for special needs groups in Nwoya district

Key Activities of the project

  • Sanitary pads education and distributions.
  • School sensitization outreaches on adolescent sexual reproductive health both in Primary and secondary schools.
  • Gender structured talks (Boy/Girl Talk) for out of school adolescence.
  • Games and sports (Youth friendly services).
  • Condom awareness and distribution to young adolescents.
  • Provide HIV prevention/ASRH to special groups (PWDs, Young positives, Young mothers etc)
  • Goats Monitoring.

 

Project achievements

STF-NYC managed to reach out to a total of 2588 youths (Male =1323, Female = 1265).

  • School sensitization outreaches to both Primary and secondary schools:

The center conducted a total of 41school outreaches and 15 community outreaches to sensitize youths on adolescence sexual reproductive health (ASRH) in Anaka and Purongo Sub-counties- Nwoya District.

 A total of 1105 adolescents were reached with ASRH messages (539 males, 566 females). Some of the topics discussed included safe male circumcision, Body changes, cross generational sex, drug abuse, gender based violence, teenage pregnancy and HIV prevention among others.

Quotes: I did not know how to use the disposable pads, I use to think it is sticked onto our private parts but now I can use it since I was educated on how to use the disposable pads, keep hygiene, signs and symptoms of menstruation. I’m very happy and remains committed in school since I no longer misses school as I used to, just because of menstruation. I can now make use of the local materials like piece of cloths, towels to help me during my menstrual periods. - Apiyo Lilian, 16years, P.6                                       

  • Games and sports (Youth friendly services).

 STF-NYC organized 09 games and sports events both in schools and in the community and these attracted 791. These was done with the aim of mobilizing the youths and sensitize them on adolescent sexual reproductive health to help them make informed decision about their health and to help them avoid engaging into risky behaviors like drug abuse, Stealing, Disco dance, gambling among others but to take sports as a healthy productive leisure. For instance, the sports event (volleyball) played between the youths of Paduny and Anaka Town council attracted over 113 youths while the football match played between Coorom youths and Corner Nwoya attracted over 141 youth. The football match played in Alero attracted about 129 youths among others.

 

Quote: I used to be a daily member of malwa (a local brew) and I would not miss even a single day but my problem used to be in looking for money to pay for my daily share to allow me drink daily and sometimes I would steal money from home just to allow me drink in the evening…….;later on I realized it was very expensive for me (2000 @ day) but now through friends, I have now resorted to playing football every evening and this has helped me leave drinking, smoking and I know longer steal, very healthy and  happy that I can now play for my sub-county in big football matches whenever its organized. All these were attributed to by interactions with friends during sports and the educative sessions by the Nwoya youth center which helped me reform……….; said Kidega Gilbert, a 20 year old boy.

           

  • Sanitary pads education and distributions: This was greatly welcomed by all the schools and the local leader since these has remained a big challenge much as only 80 young girls selected in the seven different schools benefited from the supply of the pads while the rest of the young girls both in school and the community benefited from the sanitary pads education as we could not supply to the whole population in the schools. A total of 289 girls benefited (this include the 80 girls given pads).

The 80 girls came from Kulamuka P.7, Bidati P.7, Alokolum Gok P.7, Aparanga P.7, Purongo P.7, Oruka P.7 and Gotapwoyo P.7 schools.

                                                                                                          

 

  • Providing HIV prevention/ASRH to special groups: These activity targets specifically young positives, Persons with disability, child mothers among others. These has helped the special groups access health information and services easily and are able to express themselves freely unlike when they are put together with the general population. Some of the health information given includes; Prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT), Family Planning, Safe male circumcision, HIV counseling and testing, food and Nutrition etc.

A total of 108(Male=43, Female=65) special groups reached with HIV prevention messages and ASRH.

Quotes: ………….. my parents disowned me at the time I got pregnant when I was in primary five. They refused giving any assistance to help me and my child because I disappointed them, I really suffered and my child almost died of sickness and hunger. Later on due to hard life i was forced into prostitution to help me take care of myself and the child, I started selling in a bar .I knew I was risking from contracting HIV, pregnancy among others but what I needed was money to sustain us. I did this for two years. There come a time through a friend who heard of the services at the youth center, we started attending the child mother’s activity and was counseled at the youth center and now as I talked, the youth center linked five of us to be trained in hair dressing and others trained in tailoring. I can now do hair dressing to sustain me and the child instead of prostitution, however, I lack the items to help me start the business……………………; Irene Ajok

 

Condoms awareness and distribution to young adolescents: This activity has help youths know how they can use condoms correctly and consistently to guard against HIV and other STI’s (sexually transmitted infections). Here the youths are educated on how to use condoms through condom demonstration, condom awareness and condom distribution (needy youth). This is done both at the center and outreach centers to help reach out to youths in the villages. A total of 158 adolescent reach and benefited from condoms, (Male=100 and female= 58).

Quote: I am very much happy with STF in really creating a center were sexually active youths would access condoms and also giving us awareness on condom and its corrective/consistent use to help protect our lives from getting HIV/STI’s and un wanted pregnancies. I now urge other youths to take this advantage to come and support Straight talk-Nwoya youth center in the fight against HIV among the youths since we are the future generation to come ………Oryem Regan 23years old from Akago village anaka. 

 

  • Gender structured talks (Boy/Girl Talk) for out of school adolescence. This activity is done both at the center and in the community and its done to encourage full participation of  both opposite sex in Sexual Reproductive Health since adolescents tend to shy and remain reserved when mixed together, this makes it difficult to understand the real issues affecting the Boys/Girls as they would be fearing one another. Therefore, adolescents are grouped  according to their sex and engaged into Boy/Girl talk were several topics are discussed, some of the topics discussed include; cross generational sex, HIV testing and disclosure, body changes, teenage pregnancy and ABC messages as a way of HIV prevention.

A total of 137 people reached in this activity. (Male=61 Female=78)

Quote: I am very pleased with this girl Talk discussion, I used to fear telling my friends about what i used to go through like itching private parts, experience with boys, menstruation. But now I am very free sharing with friends and this has given me new experiences and encouraged me on how to handle situations that comes my way like handling boys, body changes among others …………….Said (Aber Jennifer in Lamoki Village Anaka)

 

Monitoring goat’s project: this project benefited 20 young mothers and each received 2 goats both male and female. All these goats are healthy and doing well according to the previous report.

NB: We were not able to complete the goats monitoring by the reporting time and would now avail you with the goats report in two weeks time. Two of our staffs were away, Stephen is sick while Franka is for maternity leave.

 

These are the schools reached with STF/NYC-GLOBEMED project in Anaka and Purongo Sub-counties. A total of 20 schools.

Schools in Purongo Sub-county.

S/N                   NAME OF SCHOOL                   PARISH

1                     PURONGO P/S                           PAWATOMERO

2                       PUROPBGO HILL P/S               PAWATOMERO

3                    APARANGA P/S                          PAROMO

4                       PARAA P/S                                  PABIT

5                       WII ANAKA P/S                          PABIT

6                       OLWIYO P/S                               PAWATOMERO

7                       ORUKA P/S                                PAROMO

8                       GOTAPWOYO P/S                    LATORO

9                       PURONG SEED SEC SCH     PAWATOMERO

 

 

Schools in Anaka Sub-county.

S/N                   NAME OF SCHOOL                   PARISH

1                       ANAKA P/S                                   Nwoya TC

2                       ANAKA CENTRAL P/S               Nwoya TC

3                       ANAKA PUBLIC P/S                   Nwoya TC

4                       KULU AMUKA P/S                      KULUAMUKA

5                       ST LUKE TE-OLAM P/S            TODORA

6                       PATIRA P/S                                  YWAYA

7                       AGUNG P/S                                 TODORA

8                       LAMOKI P/S                                YWAYA

9                       BIDATI P/S                                   PANGORA

10                     ALOKOLUM GOK P/S               PABALI

11                     POPE PAUL ANAKA S.S           Nwoya TC

Challenges

Lack of stable power to facilitate office work has made it hard when it comes to writing project reports and any work that needs computer.

High demand from some community who are after material gains to help solve their problems.

The child mothers who received goats are not in support of the prior agreement of returning 2 goats after two years so that it’s given to another group of  child mothers so that all the 60 child mothers benefits.

Challenges of transport facilities to help in outreaches, the center has only 3 motorbikes attached to projects and this means we have to borrow from these project in case of outreaches and this causes delays and interfere with activity implementation. One bike is down.

Riding gears like helmets, jackets, boots and gloves are a big challenge and this puts our security in danger together with the Grow Team.

Staffing is also a challenge since the center has only 4 staffs to work on all the projects and this in turn slows or delays activities of some projects.  

Inadequate office space to accommodate all organization activities and staffing

CONCLUSIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS

 Need to keep building on one project and only continue to develop and improve on the already existing project as we work on new MOU to realize good impact and sustainability.

Need to have more discussion on logistics to perfect the project implementation. Things like protective gears, computer and transportation of the Grow team to the field.

Need to have funds transferred early for the project activities.

 

Report compiled by:  Alfred Olweny

                                  Center coordinator Nwoya Youth Center

                                  0774848448 / 0716848448

Email: Alfred.olweny@yahoo.com or olwenyalfred@gmail.com

 

 

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Goats
Goats
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Outreach to Persons with Disabilities
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ASRH Outreach to Schools
Sports and Games
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Nwoya Youth Center Staff
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Apiyo Gloria: Sanitary Pad Beneficiary
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Jul 2, 2012

STF-NYC/GlobeMed at UCLA Project Report

School girl at NYC
School girl at NYC's SRH outreach program

INTRODUCTION

 STF-NYC and Globemed at UCLA is implanting sexual Health outreach project to 1000 youths in Uganda (Nwoya District) we are obliged to write a progressive report as per the progress of the project.

 STF-NYC starts implementing the Sexual Health Outreach to 1000 youth in Nwoya District as per the MOU. GlobalGiving and Globemed at UCLA will receive this quarter’s report on Sexual Health Outreach to 1000 youth in Nwoya District as mandated by the MOU.

Project objective: To make an impact on the lives of over 1000 youth in Nwoya district by allowing general youth groups as well as special needs groups access to sexual health education, services and supplies.

 Specific objectives: To increase young peoples utilization of HIV prevention and other ASRH services at Nwoya youth Center in One year. To increase adoption of safer sex practices in adolescents through abstinence, condom use, reduced partners and faithfulness. To increase access to information and services for special needs groups in Nwoya district

Key Activities

  • Gender structured talks (Boy/Girl Talk) for out of school adolescence
  • Sanitary pads education and distributions
  • Conduct outreaches to schools (Primary and secondary)
  • Infotainment (Games, sports and video/films)
  • Condoms awareness and distribution
  • Provide HIV prevention/ASRH to special groups (PWDs, Young positives, Young mothers etc)

 

PROJECT ACHIEVEMENT

STF-NYC conducted Adolescence Sexual Reproductive Health (ASRH) sensitization to two primary schools in Anaka Sub-county- Nwoya District. A total of 50 young adolescents were reached with ASRH messages (25 males, 25 females).

Quotes: One of the beneficiaries had to say that most adolescence in our community are not fully informed about their sexual reproductive health. As such this has exposed most adolescents into a high health risk like contracting HIV/AIDS, early pregnancy, cross generational sex etc. and this explains the reasons for the high HIV/AIDS and pregnancy among young adolescents. The cross generational sex rampancy today where older men offer materials things that the girls cannot resist and they end up into all these mess in life. In our school this first term alone we registered three cases of pregnancies among the girls. --School head girl

 

STF-NYC also conducted games and sports activity in school and community with the aim of engaging the youth into a healthy productive leisure and sensitizing them on ASRH to allow the youth make informed decision about their life. For Anaka public and Anaka Central primary schools over 200 pupils attended the sports event.  While in Purongo over 150 youth attended the event, and it attracted youth from Pakwach and Purongo playing football.

Quote: "I thank the organizer of this event and I would urge them to continue to promoting the games and sports among the youth since most of our youth and engage in unproductive activities like smoking, drinking, stealing among others. This event has been so educative since the youth were sensitized on ASRH and condom use. And this has also unified the youths" -- Okot William 

 

Goat Project Monitoring and Evaluation

Monitoring goats project given to the twenty child mothers in Anaka sub-county Nwoya District (Uganda). These goats are health and doing well.

There are seven (7) new young ones born and many more female goats carrying pregnancies that in the next assessment report we would be having more increment in the number of goats.

 

Challenges

Lack of stable power for to facilitate office work has made it had when it comes to writing project reports.

Some young mothers have lost their goats due to unreported sickness of their animals and lack of proper persons to take care of the goats. Proper follow-up will be administered and more information provided.

Inadequate office space to accommodate all organization activities and staffing

Soccer players at NYC
Soccer players at NYC's Sports/Games Outreach

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Organization

GlobeMed at UCLA
GlobeMed at UCLA

Los Angeles, California, United States
http://www.globemedatucla.org

Project Leader

Caroline Nguyen

Los Angeles, California United States

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Map of Sexual Health Outreach to 1000 youth in Uganda