The
Global Fund for Children (GFC) is working with seven Ugandan grassroots based organizations
on Conflict Affected girls program across conflict affected areas of Uganda.
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| some of the participants during a role play |
As
a result of a meeting that took place in Kampala in July 2015 between GFC
program officer for Africa and Middle East, GFC partners and Mango Tree, GFC
partners showed interest to work with Mango Tree in developing materials to
inform their programming of conflict affected program for effective results of
the intervention. So the proposed meeting took place at Mango Tree offices in lira on 7th
September 2015.
The
partner organizations who attended the meeting were Rwenzori Information
Centre Network (RIC-NET), Fight to Improve Community
Health (FICH), Hope and Peace for Humanity (HPH) and and apologies from CIYOTA, COW-Foundation, RICE-WN and
LICO were registered.RIC-NET was represented by two staff;Kenyana Evelyn and Kaliba Charles.
The
meeting aimed at discussing cross
cutting issues on barriers to livelihood and education (formal and informal)
ideas to aid in developing materials/packages to support the target audience
that partners serve in addition to generating information that can help to develop
suitable package for use by partners.
Activities
that took place in the meeting include:
·
Sharing of stories how the
intervention of the GFC program has at least changed the life of a girl where
RIC-NET shared a story of a conflict affected girl who was trained in computer
and was able to get employed at a secondary school where she works as a
secretary and earns money that takes care of her, her daughter and her family.
HPH another GFC partner told a story of a girl who was abducted and stayed in captivity
for 2 years but after benefiting secondary school intervention, she is now
learning in medical school “Lacor Hospital”, and FICH also GFC partner shared a
story of a conflict affected girl who was having low self-esteem with limited
family support and after using a mentoring tool of Powerful 5Ds cycle and
entrepreneurship training, she is able to lead other girls in her school and
community and her poultry keeping business attracted one of the radio stations
and was invited to speak on air to encourage other girls.
·
Participants
were introduced to some of the tools that mango tree developed and participants
were divided into groups and each group was tasked with presenting using a
particular tool which included use of pictorial charts, role plays, developing
songs which made learning interesting and interactive.
·
Participants
were asked to ask for the tools they thought would be of help in changing the
lives of their audiences regarding which challenges were more pressing .so
participants were able to come up with the following tools:
§ Skills
for Life “Youth and Children” training materials
§ Youth
Map material that prepare youth to transition to work place
§ The
good life at school tool
§ Adolescent
Health Counseling flip chart
§ And
Training of Trainers (ToT)
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