Strong and loving
At her mercy we live
For nine months
She bares
With tatters on her
Waving off with strong
Wind from the west
Only to expose the dangling breasts
A real mother you are

In the storm you stand
In lack you provide
When domestic violence arises
She sobs privately
With bites in her heart
But a strong woman
Defends her children

With words of hope
It shall be well
With her and me
It shall be well
With us here

They leap with happiness
Can feel nothing but joy
As she sings for them
We are one family
With one blood flowing
In one vessel.

Oh parents! Oh parents!
Under your care we have grown
Boasting of how rich we are
Because of you and your decisions
Treatment when we are depressed
You are the most important people.

Oh parents! Oh parents!
Just like we can’t pay God
For what he has done
You are the same
Because we can’t give anything
But to read hard
And excel to make you happy
Oh dear parents!
You are the most important.

Story: Jane a 15 year old girl comes from a poor family which can’t afford her school fees. Mr. Charles, Jane’s father influences his wife to marry off Jane to Mr. Alex a 40 year old wealth man in target for his wealth. However the marriage isn’t stable as Alex often beats Jane due to the failure to fulfill her domestic duties. Sarah, Jane’s former schoolmate accidentally meets Jane who narrates her ordeal and Sarah advices her to report to the police. The police sermons and Jane returns back to her parents with commitment to take her back to school.

Skit story: Mary, a 16 year old girl lives with a drunkard dad and a harsh mother. She isn’t guided and counseled by her parents. Mary is encouraged by a bad peer group when she is approached by Alex. Mary becomes pregnant. She is sent out of school and goes to explain this to the mother, but she is instead chased away from home by the parents. Not knowing where to go, sits by the road side where the LCI Chairman finds her. He takes her home, counsels and advices the parents to take good care of her and to take her back to school after delivery.

Story: Rose a 10 year old girl lives with her parents. Unfortunately Rose’s father marries a second wife who convinces him to chase Rose’s mother. Rose is left in the home and she is mistreated by the step mother. She is stopped from schooling and is confined to house chores. She gets fed up and decides to run to the streets where she joins a group that deals in stealing. Unfortunately, Rose is caught stealing one day by a community member who takes her to the police. Her father is summoned by the Child and Family Protection Unit of the police. The parents and Rose are counseled and reconciled.

I benefited the following from the WSWM Student Peer Educators’ workshop:

• • I learnt how to communicate with fellow youth, how to write poems, how to keep on task and how to handle different people in the best way possible.

• • I made new friends from different districts of the country.

• • I realized that our attitudes determine our altitude. At first I had a negative attitude on skit production but I ended up liking it. I got the technical skills for webbing and learnt how skit recording is done.

• • During the brainstorming sessions, I learnt that two heads are better than one, that no one knows too much not to learn from other or too little not to be able to teach others and working together is the best way to solve a problem.

• • From the inspiration talks by young people, I learnt that no matter what age you are, you can do something good even through people may think it is hard. I learnt that we have to pass through challenges in order to prosper so we should be ready to work to overcome the challenges which come our way. I also learnt that I need to have an idea of what I want to be in future and to focus on it.

• • I learnt that time management is a core value.

KEY POINT:  “IT IS OUR DECISIONS NOT THE CONDITIONS OF OUR LIVES THAT DETERMINE OUR DESTINY” so we should make good decisions.

Oh! Rape  Oh! Rape
You are an evil
An evil which tortures the victims
Tortures the victims, torture the victims
Both mentally and physically
Rape is an evil
An evil which we should try to avoid
But how?
But how?

By avoiding bad groups
Bad groups that move at night
Bad groups that dress badly
Badly that they attract bad people
Bad people who are rapists

Oh! AIDS!  AIDS!  AIDS!
You are got in different ways
You make young ones orphans
You make women widows
You make men widowers
You make people to loss hope
You make lovers to disappear

Oh! AIDS!  AIDS!  AIDS!
To prevent you
We must use condoms
We must abstain from sex
We must be faithful to our partners
We must not share sharp instruments

Oh! AIDS!  AIDS!  AIDS!
Everybody hates you
You don’t cure
You don’t have any friend
You are ugly AIDS

Oh! AIDS
Grabbing the whole world to death
Killing me and you
Killing innocent people with no mercy and without discrimination
The young and the old
The rich and the poor
Sisters and brothers
Babies and mothers

Oh! AIDS
Where do you come from?
With many escorts; diarrhea, syphilis
Skin rashes, persistent cough among others
Fellow students be aware
Hold your spears, bows and arrows
AIDS has no cure

Love
It is the best gift you can offer
It is wide but hidden
It is a good as itself
Nothing is better than it
It breaks the yoke of grudge
It is the backbone of all nature
It can be felt moving and changing
But touching NO!
How can we define love!!

Love
It has made people die
It has caused anger
If it hates, it takes
Long to forgive
It has truly grown complicated
And cannot be understood
How can we define love!!