Assertiveness and responsibility for boys

Although Friday was the turn of the boys to receive their assertiveness session, we began the day by showing East African videos to the girls concerning the responses to sexual abuse. It is clear that when a community understands the problem, everyone can be vigilant to protect their girl children. The next step is to show the same videos to the parent group.

We then met with 150 boys in the first three years of Secondary School. They were wonderful to work with, becoming more confident and relaxed as the session went on. They shared their concerns about peer pressure and we finished with some frank talk about sexual promiscuity and responsibility. Kenyan laws are quite clear and severe, (offering penalties for sexual relations between classmates)but the problem is as always getting the information to the community.