Vol. 10 No.

7
Not for SALE: July 2007
Young Talk •Know your rights
is FREE
•Stay in school
Sex education for
primary schools •Delay sex

Stay in school for as ool is

long as you can s t a y in g in schnt you

Girls, eme
t achiev ture.
t h e b e s for a better fu
can get o early sex!
t
Say no

Staying in school is very

important. If you study you can
have a bright future with a good
job. This will enable you to look
after your family. You can stay in
school if you are well behaved,
respectful to your teachers and
everyone who is responsible for
your well being in school.
Young Talkers in Wakiso said in
order to stay in young people should:
• Delay to have sex
• Respect parents and teachers
• Avoid bad groups
• Avoid drinking alcohol, smoking
andstealing
• Follow school rules
• Say NO to forced marriage
• Read hard
• Respect each other at school
• Have a goal and work hard
towards it
• Concentrate on studies Pupils of Nkumba
• Control your sexual feelings PS putting down
• Make a healthy friendship with
teachers things that make
them stay in school
ur na l is t
Jo
fo r a d ay How do you
use your time?
Young Talkers from Wakiso told
us how they spend their time:
•Revise books and understand
•Attend all classs and ask their
teacher where they do not
understand
•Make sure they do homework in
time •Work hard at school
•Share knowledge with others to •You have a right to
learn more education
•Participate actively in class
•Boys and girls can read together •Sex is not for
Ovon Francis and Kajubi Ivan and help each other children
of Kisubi Boys, Wakiso,
discuss what makes them
•Create personal time table
where they include time to
•Report bad touches
stay in school. play and do other work YOUNG TALK IS FOR TEACHERS AND PUPILS IN P5, P6 AND P7
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Why early sex can make ery

Early sex can be v g
n
dangerous to you what
people and this is to say
you stay out of school boy and girls had e of
about the outcom
Some of the pupils from Nkumba PS and Kisubi Boys PS who talked to YT team early sex.
identified early sex as one of the problems that forces young people out of school.
Both boys and girls gave the folowing reasons:

Girls Boys
It can lead to;
It can lead to;
• Dropping out of school
• Un wanted pregnancy • To prostitution
• STDs and HIV/AIDS • Boys becoming thieves to take care of the baby.
• Destruction of the reproductive • Loss of respect and trust from the parents
system • Getting of STDs and HIV
• Young motherhood and • Boys being forced to marry and pay bride price
fatherhood • Isolation by the society if they get to know about it
• Early marriage • It can make you develop bad habits
• Family neglect • Lead to unhappy life when your parents send you
• Young girls experiencing away from home
difficulty in delivery • Causes shame when people get to know
• Loss of bright future • Imprisonment of boy because of defilement.
• Domestic violence.

What Young Talk readers say about delaying sex

Delaying sex can help you to I want to keep in school as long as Delaying sex is something cool, I make sure I concentrate on my
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achieve your goal. If you have bad
friends they can influence you to
have sex, Stay away from bad
groups to avoid dropping out of
school; Nakazzi Stella P6, 11,
Nkumba PS
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my parents are willing to pay my fees. healthy and cheap. studies and control my feelings
If I delay sex i can avoid problems like You can be respected by everyone if .This helps me to stay in school. One
unwanted pregnancy. I will ensure I you are displined and focused. It has may drop out of school when they
concentrate on my studies and many advantages like staying in do not have school fees and if they
respect my teachers. school performing well and being have problems at their homes.
Adelmars Victoria, P7, Kisubi liked by the teachers. Evelyn Etyang, 13 ,Nkumba PS
Boys PS Kefero Simon Peter, P7, 13,
Kisubi Boys PS

For teachers Voice changes

Every Wednesday we talk to girls and boys about Why is it that
staying in school. We have introduced a PIASCY some boys
programme and peer helper for the children. As voices change
teachers, we thought it was the best approach. For very fast and for
the poor children the Head teacher gives them free others remain
food and school fees to enable them stay in school. small and yet
they are old?
Those with special needs Sunday
are also taken care of. We Godfrey, P6,
have leadership and Mutir PS,
physical lesson to keep Nebbi
the children active. It is normal for even big
Logose Grace boys to have small voices. People develop
Senior Woman Teacher differently,
Kisubi Boys PS Wakiso. depending on the hormones.
Do not worry when your voice changes.
Teachers, what are you You are not sick, Something normal is
happenning. Your voice is breaking, it
doing to help children l l happens to many boys.
stay in school? Logose
Think about it... Grace
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Sara enters the classroom and
the pupils start calling her
names. She gets annoyed and
shouts at them. The teacher
gets in and asks what was
happening? One of the boys
answers that they are teasing
Sara because of Sofia. The
teacher stops them from teasing Sara.
She says they do not know if Sofia has
HIV. She adds that Sofia can live longer
and that not all of them are safe. They
too can catch HIV. Boy should not run
after girls and also girls are at risk. The
teacher and pupils discuss how HIV/
AIDS can be avoided.

The empty compound Witch...,Witch...

Witch...
AIDS...AIDS..
AIDS.

• You cannot know if a

person is HIV unless their
blood is tested
• People living with HIV
need support not hatred
Dictionary:
Mocking: To tease someone
Roosters: A cock Idiot: Being foolish

I hate you all. Look at Whats going on?

you whispering and
pointing like idiots Is that so? Then let me say
a few things which no
If Sofia kills They are all one wants to hear
herself because mocking Sara around here.
of you... because of Sofia

She can live for many years very

We don’t know if Sofia safely and bring up her children very And what about you all?
has HIV/AIDs. And even if happily. But not when everyone is Are you safe?
she does, she needs our against her. Even if she is HIV
support not our hatred positive, do you think she is the only
one in the village?

Some of you boys here And you can tell your

think you have to behave And for girls its even
more risky. Very young freinds the same thing.
like roosters chasing Unless we face up to this
girls to show you are a girls or girls who are
forced to have sex are at disease and tell the truth, it
man. Aren’t you afraid of will finish us all off
HIV/AIDS? a very high risk of
getting infected.

The bell rings

By putting Okay for
Now, can off having today, class.
anyone tell me By staying sex We’ll discuss
how we can By using faithful to one
condoms this again
avoid AIDS? partner.

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can I get basic needs? N
M, 13, SKY Standard PS

DEAR Mayuge
Dear N.M, am happy to learn

Young TALK
that you are waiting to have sex.
Abstinence will protect you from
any disease that is sexually
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P.O. B0X 22366 Kampa transmitted including HIV/AIDS.
Sex is not a solution to poverty.
There are other safe ways
through which you can raise
My father is money to cater for your needs.
mentally disturbed. Talk to your teacher about it.
He is unable to pay
my school fees. I My friend's father
still want to go to school. asked her for sex and
What can I do? she refused. Then the
Masika Sadress father decided to stop
Bunyangule PS paying her fees. Advise
Bundibugyo my friend.
Ahimbisibwe, 13, Good
Sadress, do not lose hope. Hope Nursery and PS,
Explain your situation to your Ntugamo
teacher, LC's or religious leaders Tell your friend to keep refusing
who might know of people who Pupils of Nkumba PS pose for a her father's demand. It is wrong
can help. Your father can also be group photograph after talking and criminal. Report this case to
treated at a mental hospital to the Young Talk team the LC's, relatives, teachers or any
where he might get better. responsible adult for help.
My sister is being My teacher wants to
forced to get have sex with her.
married to an old This disturbs my
man. And our parents mind. What can I do?
have refused to pay her Mugaya Juma, 14, P6,
school fees. Advise her. Bugiri
Junju Musa, St. Jude PS It is a crime for teachers or any
Malaba body to ask for sex from pupils.
Sorry! Report this matter to your Stick to a No and also report to
teacher, local authority like LCs the head teacher and your
and district probation officer for
Pupil of Bukuluka Mawogola parents.
help. It is against the law to
PS and their teacher
force children into marriage.
Sembabule.
go back to school. But good. It can helps reduce pain
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There is a man in our my father refused to pay in some girls. When the
village who is forcing her fees. Advise. bleeding is too much, it is
me to stop school Mbambu Aidah Maasa, important that you visit a health
and marry him. He Bunyangule PS, center for help.
promises me everything Bundibugyo
What can I do? One mistake should not end I am abstaining but
Gakuru Saveri, your sister's education. Tell your the problem is that Peter
Kaburasaza PS, Kisoro teachers or other relatives who poverty may force Mubala
This man wants to use you and can talk to your father about the me to have sex. How Counsellor
spoil your future. Do not accept. importance of her education.
Success in education will help Your sister will be more useful in
you to get whatever you need in future if she is helped to
life. Tell your parents about this continue with her education.
man and stay in school.
There is a boy who
My friends have always asks me for
girlfriends. They are sex. He said if I
also telling me to refuse, he will rape me. I
have one yet I still am scared.
want to study. How can I Nakimwanjo Teddy, P5,
avoid them? Lwemiyaga PS,
Okecho George, Akaba Sembabule
PS Nebbi Be strong. Report the boy to
It is normal not to have a your parents and teachers. Also
girlfriend. You do not have to do avoid being in lonely places and
what your friends are doing. You moving alone. Pupils of Kirwoko PS Young Talk Club, Kapchorwa, with
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