Not for SALE: Vol. 10 No.

8
August 2008
Young Talk
is FREE •Know your rights
Sex education for •Stay in school
primary schools
•Delay sex

Li vi ng w it h
disability? How do you feel
disabilities
Do you live with any kind of
and how do other children
treat you?Do not feel bad
about yourself. You are normal
and have a right to be
protected from abuse.If you
live or study with children
with disabilities, know that
they have feelings. Respect
them and protect them
from sexual abuse.
Do not allow to be
abused. Say NO to
sex. Protect
yourself from HIV.
Young Talk visited children
with disabilities in Masaka.
They talked about their life,
dreams and how they
avoid HIV.
Amos Mwesezi
got a wound on
his left leg when
he was a baby.
It could not heal
and he got a disability.
I love my body
But he says.....
I know how HIV spreads
I do not share sharp objects with I am careful with my body. I love it
anyone. My father told me to avoid girls so much. I cannot allow anyone
if I am to avoid getting HIV. to abuse it. I do not accept gifts
from men. Yo-acel Monica,
14, P7, Masaka School of
I do not like nicknames
Some children used to call me children with special
'Butcherman.' I was not happy, I needs.
reported them to the teachers.
I miss football
Football is my best game. I
cannot play it, I just watch
others play. Pupils call me
the coach. I laugh at those
who have two legs and
can’t even kick a ball.
I want to become
a judge
I want to study hard and
become a judge of the
There is a woman who wanted to
International Criminal Court
buy me sweets. I feared that she
in The Hague. Amos
could force me into sex and give
Mwesezi, 12, P6, Nabinene
me AIDS. Derrick Musoke,
Adventist PS, Masaka.
14, P7, Masaka School of
children with special needs
Monica and Derrick use Sign Language to
learn. They can't hear or talk. But they are very
active at school. Monica is also the headgirl.

ten years
It is ten Disability is not inability
of Young Ta lk Many people with disabilities have made it
in life. Some are MPs, teachers, doctors and
lawyers. Abdul Busulwa, who is visually
your
We are changing impaired (blind) is soon going to America to
newspaper to make it more fun. do his third degree. He works with National
In your club, discuss what you Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda
would like to change or add in (NUDIPU)
Young Talk. He says;"You need courage and
Write and tell us on determination to succeed. Many times I
P.O.Box 22366 Kampala. wanted to leave school but I told myself,
why leave now when I have come this far?
I grew up in a poor family but we shared
best letters the little we had equally. Before I joined
Makerere University, I was the best at S4 in
Iganga district and 2nd best in S6. Believe in

WIN pr es!
priizzes! yourself, you will make
it in life". YOUNG TALK IS FOR TEACHERS AND PUPILS IN P5, P6 AND P7
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Staying safe with disabilities

Blind but safe
My classmates help me a lot. They
read for me what is on the Types of disabilities
blackboard. They also show me which There are many types of disabilities:blindness, hearing
way to take. I do other things on my impairment, physical disability, mental disability,
own like washing and fetching water. epilepsy and deafblind. Some people are born
I fear HIV so I do not misbehave with disabled. But many become disabled as
girls.There is a girl who used to children and others as adults especially in
come in our house to have sex with accidents. Some disabilities can be avoided
me. I told my mother and she chased like polio.
her away. Deo Lumbuye, P7,
Misanvu PS, Masaka. Common causes of disablilities:
• Diseases like malaria, menengitis,
polio and trachoma
• Falling from a high place
• Improper use of drugs
I manage my • Loud noise like gunshots
• Car accidents
feelings • Poor nutrition
There is a time when I get alot of • Wars
sexual feelings but we have our
'police', the PIASCY teacher, who
is always watching us. I manage
my feelings by listening to radio or
playing football. Isma Kayima,
15, P5, Misanvu PS,
Masaka

Message from NUDIPU

Dear children with disabilities, know your rights
and protect them. National Union of Disabled
Persons of Uganda (NUDIPU) is working with
organisations to put in place friendly services for
you. We are also training teachers and
organisations to serve you better. It is your right to
be treated with respect, love and care. Irene
Mirembe, Information Officer-HIV/AIDS
Project, NUDIPU
Dear Young Talker, read Young Talk for any Pupils of Masaka School of children with special
blind child you know. They also need to learn needs use Sign Language to sing “Baby Jesus”.
about HIV.
Boys too can be defiled
Support children with Children with disabilities The July issue of Young Talk said
disabilities have equal rights boys are sexually abused while girls
are defiled. However, the new law
Pupils of St. Modesta Many • Education on defilement says both boys and
Model PS, Masaka speak disabled • Easy access to classes girls can be defiled. If someone
out on how they feel and children in • Medical care uses an object or penis to enter
what they would do if countries • Protection your vagina, mouth or anus, or a
they had a disability. that are • Clean environment woman having sex with a young
still • Food boy is all defilement. So watch out
If I had a disability, I would want developing for people who do such bad things
to be treated well and be given all like You have a right to say and report them to police!
that I want. Nakawesi Oliva, Uganda Frank Othembi the Registrar,
14, P6 do not go
NO to sex. If you are Education and Public
I would want children to love me attacked by a rapist/
to school. Such children can easily defiler: Affairs at the Judicial
and help me to learn. Rodgers be abused by people and they get Service Commission
Kayinga, 13, P7 • Shout very loud for people to hear
pregnant, infected with HIV or • Hit him/her with your crutch
STDs. This is sad. We can change • Squeeze sensitive parts on them
it. Demand for your rights to Schools for children
like testicles or breasts.
I would want with special needs:
children to help • Ntinda school for the deaf,
me so that I can Kampala
be happy in life.
Nabawesi
Mary, 13, P5
For Teac hers
Use special time to talk about HIV/AIDS,
body
• Masaka School for children
with special needs
• Tukore PS, Mbarara
• Madera school for the blind,
al
changes and life skills. Children with speci Soroti
Tell
I would want needs can easily be taken advantage of. • Misanvu PS Special needs
one is
other people to them to shout or make noise if some education unit, Masaka
help me solve trying to attack them. And to report • Kampala school for the
something
my problems immediately to teachers or parents if physically handicapped
and work with ens to them . Bett y Nan seko , • Agururu unit for the deaf
bad happ ren
me. Bernard Teacher, Masaka School of child • Salaama School for the Blind,
Wasswa, with special needs. Mukono
14, P7 YOUNG TALK IS FOR TEACHERS AND PUPILS IN P5, P6 AND P7
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Welcome to part 5 of “Sara
the Special Gift”. In this
part, Sara is very sad that
she cannot go to
secondary school. She tries
to read her books in her
room but her mind is not
The special Gift
settled. But she has hope that her
father will send money in time and
she goes to secondary school. Sara
then meets her friend Lizard. She
shares her worries with him. Later,
her brother hears her talking alone.
He is touched. He tells Sara that he
is ready to leave school so that she
can continue. Sara refuses, saying
there must be another way for her.

and down to show you agree

Concentrate: Do one thing

Nod: Move your head up

Dictionary:
• Never lose hope even

with someone
when things are bad

Tough: Hard
• Share your worries
with a friend, you

at a time
will feel better and
strong.
• Girls and boys need
Sara, fighting back tears, runs out of the Kitchen equal education

In her room that evening, Sara tries to read by the

lamplight but she cannot concentrate. She takes out
her school books and looks at them but it’s no use
Father will
send the
money in time Oh it’s You
he will! I
know he
will......

Lizard. You are my I’m going to

friend. leave school so
But of course you you can
I need a nod from you, can’t tell me .......
life is getting tough. I continue
I must find out
dont know what to do. myself!
You see, I want to
learn, that is my main
concern.

But I don’t
want you to
Stop.....
No, Tsumi. That What friend?
isn’t the answer.

Oh, -- You
don’t know
him
I know. But there
must be another
way. My friend says
so. YOUNG TALK IS FOR TEACHERS AND PUPILS IN P5, P6 AND P7
4 Young Talk, August 2008
married off when you are young.
There are so many problems. One of
them is early pregnancy which can
DEAR end your life. You also have a right
to be given food.Tell your problem
Young TALK to a responsible adult, an LC leader
or trusted friend, they can talk to
la
P.O. B0X 22366 Kampa your sister.
Counsellor Faith Falal
Straight Talk Foundation

I have a girlfriend who

buys me sweets and
pancakes. She then
asks me for sex yet she has Dictionary
other sexual partners, what Hormone: Substance
can I do? Aine O, 14, P7, help
produced by the body to
Rweigaaga PS, Bushenyi?
it to grow
Aine, do not accept to have sex for a
because you ate pancakes and Stare: Look at someone
sweets. Think about your future first. We love making friends including children with long time
If you cannot stand it, tell her to disabilities. Pupils of St. Modesta PS, Masaka. Stretch: To make longer
stop it. You said she has other sexual Miserable: very unhappy
partners, this makes it more Estrogen: a hormone in girls
necessary for you to tell her what that helps breasts to grow
you feel about her demands. Love is
not shown by having sex or giving
gifts. Say no to early sex to avoid
HIV/AIDS, STDs and unwanted
pregnancy.

Is it true that if I wash

my penis with soap I
can get cancer? Henry
M, 14, P7, St. Josephs Sanje
PS, Rakai
Henry, soap does not cause cancer
of the penis. Instead it helps improve
your hygiene. But you do not need to
put soap on the inside part of your
foreskin. It can cause a bad smell. Thank you Young Talk for thinking about us. Pupils
Star Teacher
Use soap only to clean on top and of Masaka school of chidren with special needs. for June, Mr. Geofrey
only clean water on the inside part Okware of Ngelechom PS,
of your foreskin. This should be every Yes you can. At 13 years, you may My sister denies me food Tororo (right) receives a
time you bathe. have started producing sperms. So because I refused to get
if you had sex with a girl, you could married. I am an mobile phone prize
Can I make a girl make her pregnant. Be responsible orphan, what can I do? NR, from Philip Byaruhanga
pregnant at my age? when relating with girls. You can P7, Kibuye PS, Kampala of Straight Talk
Ambrose H, 13, Revival have them as friends and not think NR, thanks for knowing
PS, Kampala. about having sex with them. what you want. Never accept to be
Foundation.
I sit and share with a
friend in class who is

Star
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say I will get HIV from her,
is it true?
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Bre
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