I would like to take this opportunity to thank Amref Africa and SchoolNet Uganda because they made me to know who really I was.
My journey for the workshop started for the 27th of August 2015 and I was eager and interested for the peer educators workshop because I knew that I was the one to change the situation we the youth are in.
On that particular day, I woke up late and found out that my fellows with whom we had to travel with had already left. I was really embarrassed and disappointed with myself but I had a hope of making it and indeed with the support of my dad I had to make it because he provided me with transport for the journey which made it possible to attend the workshop.
I was really interested in knowing how the workshop would be and had drawn in that imagination of how the workshop would be. And indeed it came to the way I expected it to be. The workshop was interesting and educative. A lot of advice and skills were given to the participants.
The workshop made me to fully know my sexual and reproductive health and the challenges with it in case I messed around with it.
I came to know how to make my own sanitary pads from the available resources which I had not known before.
The workshop gave me the skills of presenting myself in public and how to present my ideas before the community and also got the different methods used in presenting.
I came to know my body fully including the reproductive parts and what happens in them during the different stages and the changes that occur in them it made me to know that I had only one life and should handle it carefully.
My writing skills were improved when I needed to type my presentation and had to present it to my fellow participants. My ICT knowledge was also widened since I had to do a lot of research and how to send my presentation to other people using email.
It was fantastic and I really enjoyed the workshop where it really sharpened my career of becoming a teacher since it gave skills on how to educate others and how to organize myself and my presentation.
In conclusion, the workshop really opened my knowledge and understanding of being a youth and who really I was and my responsibility as peer educator and also taught me how to fish but not wait to be given a fish.
Thanks those who took their time to be part of the workshop and who made it to the expectations. I guess we shall make our nation a better place to live in and am ready to share with others.
