The 2009 WSWM Exhibition Schedule at a Glance
This weekend (Sat 3rd and Sun 4th) October 2009 and next weekend (Sat 10th and Sun 11th) October 2009, SchoolNet Uganda will be having the World Starts With Me (WSWM) exhibitions at 46 Exhibitions centres across the country involving 150 secondary schools participating in the WSWM project implemented by SchoolNet Uganda in partnership with the World Population Foundation (WPF) and the schools. The World Starts With Me (WSWM) is Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) program for young people.
The Exhibition is Lesson 14 of the WSWM curriculum and this lesson is facilitated by the students unlike the first 13 lessons which are facilitated by teachers. After the students learning in the first 13 lessons, they now have an opportunity to use the skills and knowledge they have acquired to educate their fellow students, teachers, school administration and management and their parents on issues regarding sexuality and growth and how to live enjoyable health lives. The students became change agents in their communities.
Uganda is faced with SRHR issues like early pregnancy, abortion, child sacrifice and abuse, sexual harassment and abuse, alcohol and drug abuse etc all of which are causing moral degeneration in society. The youth who are the leaders of tomorrow have something to say. The exhibition gives them an opportunity to air their voices.
Please attend in person, invite parents, nearby schools, your biological children and listen to the key SRHR messages from the students which will be communicated through poems, speeches, personal testimonies, art works, skits etc. Feel free to attend any of the exhibitions near you.
Remember young people learn more from their peers whom they see as friends in ‘the know“ rather than from adults whom they see as authority trying to preach to the young on how to behave.
A detailed “WSWM Exhibition Schedule at Glance” can be downloaded from the link below.