P7 Leavers Warned Against Sex

Nov 24, 2002

THE Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) ended last Thursday.

By Catherine Ntabadde
THE Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) ended last Thursday. With a four-month holiday ahead of them, what will P7 leavers do until next year when they resume school?
Parents and guardians, are you prepared for the candidates? Have you organised any activity to keep them busy? It was such questions that forced one senior woman teacher to do something.
Alexandria Kamanyire of Nabagereka Primary School in Mengo-Kisenyi, Kampala, organised a workshop for P7 girls in that area.
International Care and Relief sponsored the Adolescent sexual and reproductive health workshop.
On November 8, 2002 at Nabagereka PS, the girls were advised how to remain healthy and morally upright during the vacation.
Over 50 girls attended the workshop. They were advised to say no to sex to avoid HIV/AIDS and other STDs, and teenage pregnancy and abortion.
Daphine Kyomuhendo a doctor at Nsambya Hospital emphasised that “No sex before marriage” was the best solution.
Kyomuhendo warned the girls against abortions as they could lead to death or infertility in adulthood.
“When young children carry out abortions, they might die, become infertile and experience psychological torture when they grow up,” the doctor said.
Present at the workshop were Nabagereka PS headteacher, William Mukiibi, Central Division education officer, Lawrence Nsereko and Resty Bwanga, youth counsellor at AIDS Information Centre (aic).
The girls fully participated in the workshop.
was when Kyomuhendo asked the girls to tell her some of the words boys and men use to lure girls into sex.
Without any shyness, the girls raised their hands and said the phrases. “You are the ice cream of my heart.” “Your eyes are shinning like Wandegeya traffic lights” “You are the Prime Minister of my heart,” causing laughter from senior women teachers who also attended the workshop.
The girls asked whether condoms were 100% effective. Bwanga told them that they are no condoms for young children like them. She added that condoms are only effective when use by adults.
Bwanga further said that girls are more vulnerable to contracting AIDs than boys of the same age. “Young girls are attractive to men. They give you gifts and money but how will you pay back. It is through sex. Men are now wise.
Detoothing is no more because men have discovered ways in which women and girls get money out of them,” she revealed. Ends

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