The programme will offer education to standard six and standard seven pupils and is expected to reach about 85 primary schools in the municipality, before moving on to Temeke and Ilala municipalities.
WOINSO chairman Janet Sebastian said that the instruction offered will involve pictures and other psychological techniques to enable the pupils understand the contents easily enough.
“We see that there is need to educate our children due to huge changes in our society today. There are so many diseases which can be transmitted through unsafe sex and we have to remind them about the effects of abortion. If we remain quite they will lose direction,” she stated.
Inspite of difficulties that they face they will make sure that they pass the message to children in the three city municipalities and in the regions, she said.
Dr Martin Mahano, a WOINSO stakeholder, said that children upbringing starts from the family, urging parents and guardians to make sure that they help their children to be safe.
“On our part, we will teach them about the best ways to escape sexual transmitted diseases like syphilis, gonorrhea and AIDS. We will also remind them about the abortion’s effects like deaths and the effects of early sexual relationships to them,” she stated.
Tegeta ward councilor Athumani Kipeta who was the guest of honor, called upon the society to join efforts in raising awareness in children as WOINSO was doing.
If primary school pupils will have practical knowledge on how to escape from sexually transmitted diseases and understand the effects of early sexual relations, we expect to have a more willed generation in the next decade, the councilor underlined.
SOURCE:
THE GUARDIAN
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