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Stay Safe is a programme run by Joy for Children to sensitize young people mainly in secondary schools about living responsible lives, sexual reproductive health, advocating for their rights and how they can help create better schools/ communities in which they live.
Following an intensive advocacy campaign in secondary schools in 2009 that aimed at creating awareness about HIV, Stay Safe Clubs were formed in Victory Senior Secondary School, Kampala High School, Makerere Highway College, Our Lady of Fatima Senior Secondary School and Kasubi Senior
Secondary School with 150 registered members. The issues to address mainly are centered on
Violence Against Children (VAC), Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights.
Stay Safe is about meaningful participation and sustained involvement for
young people in activities that help create better schools/ communities that are free
from abuse and violence against children and adolescents.
Future Plans
- Have a Stay Safe Club notice boards in each school
where information will be posted regularly
- Have at least one meeting for all the
leaders of the Stay Safe Clubs each term to help discuss, exchange ideas,
challenges and experiences they are facing but also to help create
understanding and dialogue among all the clubs. This will be in a Stay
Safe Club leader’s seminar.
- Have schools visit each other to discuss, debate and plan for what the clubs
can do together as a group with a common cause. This will be in an annual event
involving music, dance, drama, sports among others.
- Hold one get-together party at the end of each year where all subscribed members from all schools will have a day out together to know each other, play games and outgoing committee members will be awarded with certificates in recognition of their contribution.
- Expand the programme to more five secondary schools in Kawempe Division.
- Production of quarterly Newsletters contributed to by young people where they can give views and exchange ideas.
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Joy for Children Uganda
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P.O Box 15383
Kampala (Uganda)
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Telephone:
+256 414 530 450
+256 414 380 417
+256 712 982 301
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Email:
info@joyforchildren.org
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