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8 Volume 10
August 2007
Young Talk
is FREE •Know your rights
Sex education for •Stay in school
primary schools
•Wait to have sex
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talkers in the districts of Bushenyi • We give them our sweaters to use in
Ibanda and Isingiro. It was interesting case their uniforms get dirty.
to note that boys were aware that • We ask teachers to give other
menstruation was a normal body punishments instead of caining
change in girls. Menstruation is when girls who are in their periods.
a girl’s body releases blood from the • We tell girls to always put on
womb or the uterus through the vagi- knickers to avoid embarrassment.
na. Some boys said that they support
girls during menstruation. But how do
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My brother taught
me what to do
My elder brother helps me a lot when I am in my
periods. He taught me how to look after myself
and not allow boys to deceive me. I would like
boys in my class to help me and not laugh at me
when I I'm in my periods. I may feel bad and fail
to come to class. Menstruation is not easy.
BAD ATTITUDE
Menstruation is not good. Those girls who get it sleep with many men. • Boys be sensitive to girls
I don't want to sit with them. They smell in class for boys . when they are in their
Turyasingure Alex, P7, Kataho PS, Bushenyi periods
Personally I thank God for making me a boy because I hate seeing girls
in menstruation. I would feel embarrassed and hate myself for being a • Menstruation is not a
girl. I can almost blame God for creating me a girls! curse.It is a natural body
Gai David, Kisubi Boys School, Wakiso change
For teachers
• Carry some pads
or clean pieces of
cloth in your bag
for incase your
period starts
A Senior Woman teacher Ms Juliet
unexpectedly
Bashangi of Kataho PS demostrates
• Carry an extra
to girls how pads are used. Dear
clean pair of
Teachers, help girls to manage their
knickers
periods so that they don't miss
• Ask your senior
classes.
woman teacher
to help you when you do not know
Encourage boys to support instead
what to do. i
of teasing and laughing at them.
Keep some pads, water and an
Maintain hygiene extra uniform at school in case a
It is always good to be clean by girl soils herself.
bathing atleast twice a day to avoid Let us help girls to love their
bad smell and other bacterial chaning bodies.
infection.
YOUNG TALK IS FOR TEACHERS AND PUPILS IN P5, P6 AND P7
3 Young Talk, August 2007
If we don’t find
her we’ll have to
tell the chief
It’s too early yet.
She might have gone
anywhere
t
Be concerned abounce
your friend`s abseaccuse
It is not good to ing
Come on, someone of infectV
Sara, let’s go the other with HI at
Always tell peopleare
to the well.
Sofia my dear,
Sofia, Sofia, are Look. Look at it. It’s where have you been?
you safe? We were dying and no one cares. We have been so
worried. We are all dying and no worried.
one cares.
Aviod early sex because you can get HIV/AIDS and die when you are still young.
YOUNG TALK IS FOR TEACHERS AND PUPILS IN P5, P6 AND P7
4 Young Talk, August 2007
Can a girl who has
DEAR
carried out an abortion
give birth in future? Akol B,
2-way PS, Busia
My friends tell me if I do
not pull my clitoris I will
not produce and this worries Henry
me a lot. Nakazige A, Nsubuga
Counsellor
Lwemiyaga PS, Sembabule
STF
That is not true, pulling clitoris has
nothing to do with giving birth.
Many women do not pull their
clitoris but give birth. It is only a
practice in some cultures. Ask your Publisher:
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FOR A DAY
Malongo Watson;; Deputy Director: T. Agutu,
Pimples are one of the body changes Editorial Manager: B. Kagoro, Editors: E.
experienced by boys and girls in Kimuli, G. Awekofua, Chief Designer:
puberty. Some boys too get pimples Gai David and Esther M. Kalanzi, Designer: Gb. Mukasa,
yet they do not menstruate. Avoid Reporter: J Abongowath, Printer: The
eating fatty food and take enough Tibamwenda of Kisubi Boys, New Vision, Young Talk is funded by
water. Simply wash your face with Wakiso, discuss about DANIDA, DFID & SIDA.
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