Secondary Education Program

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By Sam Musisi
Sam Musisi has been working with KACCAD since the beginning of 2007. He works closely with Amanda co-directing the Health Education and Volunteer programs. He partners with Nicholas to manage the HIV/AIDS Outreach and Support Program.

This quarter we have been working with three schools, Hajji Kiyemba Memorial Vocational Institute, Bbira Vocational School and Kikaaya College. This term we are teaching 59 students at Hajji Kiyemba Memorial Vocational Institute, a women’s school with a focus on tailoring and catering. At Bbira Vocational we work with between 50 and 60 students a week. This school teaches both males and females and has many subjects. Kikaaya College is a secondary school with some vocational studies. This term we are only working with senior 5. Previously we taught once a week at the school rotating through senior 1-6 classes. Working with one class we are focusing on providing more consistent support and health education to students. We teach over 90 students at Kikaaya.

At all the mentioned schools so far we have taught life skills lessons that help the students to cope up with life challenges for a better future. For example: Getting to know each other, HIV/AIDS lessons like Who is having HIV (a lesson designed to help students see that you can’t tell if someone has HIV by looking at them), the human immune system and sexually transmitted diseases/infections and their symptoms. Apart from teaching health information we play games and do role plays that demonstrate how HIV affects the immune system and the fluids that pass. We include drama, movement and student participation in our lessons.