Teenage suicide is one of the big topics we are dealing with here - the other one is teenage pregnancy. We have girls age 14, who are pregnant and seriously don't know how that could have happened. And as suicide that is not only the case in our school, but in all the schools we are working in. In a country like South Africa, where besides getting pregnant they could also get any kinds of STIs that really shouldn't be the case. The kids do learn stuff at school, but it doesn't seem to be enough.
Because that is a topic that concerns all the girls of the school, Karin and I decided to run a workshop on sexual education through all classes. That means 11 classes in our last 7 weeks at Good Hope Seminary High. Tough plan, but we really think liked the idea of making an impact that easy: information.
We started on Monday with one of the 8th grades. And it was fun. We had a plan, we wanted to go over the female circle, sexual activity, contraceptive methods, STIs and consent one by one and answer their questions afterwards. We expected them to be a little shy and ashamed in the beginning - but it came all different. We introduced ourselves and that we are here to answer all the questions they have about sex and they started shooting questions at us immediately. We planned one and a half hour for that, but we didn't manage to answer all the questions at all. We got to nearly all our take-home-messages like just like that. One of them, that contraceptive methods are free in South Africa, if you go to a clinic and free to get from the age of 12.
Karin was a little worried about us not having a proper plan for the workshop, but lost all her concerns with the first run. It was a great success, as far as we can tell - and we had a lot of fun doing it.
Because that is a topic that concerns all the girls of the school, Karin and I decided to run a workshop on sexual education through all classes. That means 11 classes in our last 7 weeks at Good Hope Seminary High. Tough plan, but we really think liked the idea of making an impact that easy: information.
We started on Monday with one of the 8th grades. And it was fun. We had a plan, we wanted to go over the female circle, sexual activity, contraceptive methods, STIs and consent one by one and answer their questions afterwards. We expected them to be a little shy and ashamed in the beginning - but it came all different. We introduced ourselves and that we are here to answer all the questions they have about sex and they started shooting questions at us immediately. We planned one and a half hour for that, but we didn't manage to answer all the questions at all. We got to nearly all our take-home-messages like just like that. One of them, that contraceptive methods are free in South Africa, if you go to a clinic and free to get from the age of 12.
Karin was a little worried about us not having a proper plan for the workshop, but lost all her concerns with the first run. It was a great success, as far as we can tell - and we had a lot of fun doing it.
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