PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS TRAINED ON GENDER AND SPOUSAL RELATIONSHIPS.

 

Parents and caregivers in Kibiito town council enrolled in the parenting groups of Maligo , Kyakahinda  A, B and Kagoma A and B have been trained on gender and spousal relationships two of the modules   of the parenting for respectability Program. (PFR)

oburungi bwa maligo group during the sessions

The community based facilitator introduced Gender sessions to the parents and caregivers on a weekly basis for one hour and 30 minutes every day. This module was trained to improve the parents understanding on gender and how society expectations hinder or facilitate children to reach their full potential. It is also intended to draw a clear distinction between gender, sex, gender roles and sex roles.

The overall goal of the gender module is to help men and women examine the relationship between being a man/boy and being woman/girl and how these can be used to promote non violent relationship within a family. At the end of this training the parents and caregivers had improved their understanding of how gendered power impacts on the lives of boys, girls, women and men; improved relationship between men , women, boys and girls within a family; involvement of men , women , boys and girls in making family decisions; reduced negative cultural , social norms and practices.

During experience sharing

The spousal relationship module was trained too and its main goal is to improve marital relationships in order to promote god parenting. It also aims at building marital relationships in order to promote good parenting and addresses issues regarding communication, spousal violence and resolving conflict.  At the end of the training parents and caregivers had improved knowledge about communication between spouses, reduced incidences of violence between spouses, reduced excessive use of drugs/ alcohol , improved constructive ways of resolving disputes among spouses and improved hygiene among spouses. “I thank RIC-NET for this program because I have learnt before attending this program we would have misunderstandings with my spouse and we quarrel in front of our children not knowing they were being affected but after these sessions we have changed and now we finish everything from our bedroom without our children knowing since we are both in the parenting groups.” Said a member of oburungi bwa maligo group.