RIC-NET SUPPORTS OUT-OF-SCHOOL ADOLESCENTS.

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Life is tough for out-of-school adolescents who have been home for close to a year with restricted movements due to coronavirus pandemic, causing them a lot of suffering. With uncertainty and stress ahead, many adolescents are traumatized and stressed which may have a significant and long-term impact on their mental health.

Rwenzori Information Centers Network (RIC-NET) through the PVAC/A project carried out orientation meetings with the out-of-school adolescents to enroll them on the project through groups in the cells of Kahogo, Kasaali and Kagoma . The project orients the adolescents about the risk factors and how to become resilient to Violence through weekly learning forums and engaging them with income-generating activities so that they overcome stress caused by being idle.

Youth of Kasaali after orientation meeting

 Out-of-school adolescents have formed groups in these villages and two peer educators a male and female have been chosen from among them to be trained in the different topics that had been researched by RIC-NET to help these adolescents fight the risk factors of violence and overcoming the COVID 19 effects.

The training for the peer educators has been carried out at Travellers nest hotel in Kibiito town council. The adolescents appreciated the program and could not wait to meet their fellow adolescents in their groups and to share with them what they have been taught. The training ended and the weekly learning forums commenced in the adolescent groups in the targeted cells of Kahogo, Kasaali and Kahogo.  

A team of the peer educators after the training.