On Friday, I didn’t have
an exam and so I used that opportunity to purchase some of the basic needs for
our sponsored children together with David and Erick. The purchases included
under pants, camisals for our growing girls ,bikers, pair of socks for the
boys, panties, vests exercise books, erasers, rulers, pen and pencils among
others. All this was done just to motivate them in terms of education and also
ensure a comfortable stay at their schools.
We sorted the things on
Saturday with Erick and ensured each child got his or her required items.
We also had a guiding
and counselling session for our teenager girls. We first showed them a movie
known as ’Under Pressure’. It is a movie that talks of how young girls involve
themselves in early sex with boys and married men in exchange of money and
luxuries such as phones and this is due to peer pressure not knowing the
consequences that might befall them after wards.
We had them watch the
whole movie the first time and started explaining bit by bit to make them
understand what was going on. In the movie there was this young girl who was
from a humble background while at school she had friends who had phones and so
all the time they could tease her and provoke her. Due to that pressure this
girl decided to seek advice from a friend who agreed that the other girls were
right, not knowing the guy was interested in her, he even proposed to buy her a
phone and a few days later he bought her one but the girl refused since she was
not ready for that. On refusal to receive the phone the guy went back to his
house disappointed to an extent that he did not speak to his wife.
We asked them what they
learnt from the movie and we had several motivating answers from them
1. Gladys said
that school girls should not have premarital sex with adults.
2. Fridah learnt
that they should only concentrate in education while at school.
3. According to
Elizabeth young girls are not required to have phones in school
4. Lydia said
that students are not allowed to accept gifts from men and people with bad intentions
and also strangers.
This showed that the
girls were really following the movie. As a guiding and counseling team we
advised them to do one thing at a time as everything has its own time. Like now
it is time for them to only concentrate on education as is the main reason for
them to be called students. We encouraged them to keep on working hard for it’s
the only key to success in every person’s life. We also made it clear that they
be more cautious while choosing friends so as not to end up messing their lives
because of peer pressure.
Their closest friends
should be books all the time and with that they wouldn’t have any other evil
intentions.
We also had time with
the guardian as a team. Advised them to be close to their children, monitor
their progress all the time, encourage them and motivate them to work hard in
their studies.
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