Valentino Richard Kabenge Facilitates Training of MDD items in Kyegegwa District With UYAHF
September 08, 2020
The objectives of the training were; to provide a platform for the refugee youths to identify, discuss and share common SRHR and SGBV related challenges, their impacts on their health and well-being, and how these urgently need to be addressed, discuss and reflect on strategies and key messages that can be employed to address these challenges using music dance and theatre as an approach among others.
Kabenge who is one of UYAHF’s cultural icons facilitated the composition, recording, and production of poems, skits and songs sessions where participants were divided into groups and tasked to act out these scenarios in form of a play.
Challenges that guided the MDD sessions were teenage pregnancy, rape, child marriage, domestic violence, lack of SRHR information and menstruation hygiene. During the training, they ensured that the challenges, cause, and solution came out clearly through the poems, dance, play, and songs that they composed. The composed materials were all geared towards promoting positive social behaviors within Kyakka II, Kyegegwa district.
Kabenge went ahead and called upon participants and the community to be supportive to adolescents who face SRHR challenges by setting up cooperative systems within the community, following the proper procedures of reporting and not discriminating against survivors.