By Hamad Rashid / The Loyal Media
After being trained in Life Skills and Values by the GLAMI Organization, Morogoro District 50 Champions’ parents will provide training in These Skills and Values in their communities.
The campaign, which is a Pilot Program, will run from November to December 2024. It will take place under the Action for Life Skills and Values Project in East Africa, which is in its second phase and obtained through the Life Skills and Value Cluster of the Regional Education Learning Initiative in East Africa (RELI—Africa).
After training the parents with Secondary School teachers, the Morogoro District Council office, Programs Social Worker, and Community Liaison from GLAMI–Morogoro, Deborah Julias Ijiko said the Champions parents recruited from five Wards.
“After providing training to parents on life skills and values, we found 50 parents from the five wards, namely, Ngerengere, Kisemu, Mkuyuni, Kisaki, and Bwakila chini, we have been able to meet these 50 champions again and build their capacity on how they can provide life skills training in the community. In this training, the parents themselves have been able to prepare their plan for how they will teach life skills and values through various meetings and gatherings”.
Deborah Julias Ijiko Programs Social Worker, and Community Liaison
The Chief Trainer of Life Skills and values training for champions, a Senior Program Officer of the ALiVE Project from Milele Zanzibar Foundation, Samson John Sitta mentioned the three objectives of conducting Life Skills training for parents, “As ALiVE we have set a strategy to involve all the systems around in promoting the understanding of life skills and values but also to create parents who will be able to build life skills for their children, so the first goal is to spread the understanding of life skills to these parents who we call them champions, the second goal is to conduct a campaign to educate the community about life skills by sending champions who have already been empowered and the third goal is to learn through the parent’s engagements and teachers about these life skills Life, as one of the platforms to help build awareness of Life skills and values”
Sitta added, “In this plan, we expect to have 300 champions from 6 Districts, three from the mainland and three from Zanzibar, where after three months, we will have a report that will give us a good direction”
About parents and teachers.
Risma Omari is a parent who lives in Ngerengere Ward, speaking after being given life skills and values training, which took place at Ngrengere Secondary School, she explained, “We have received this program well and we promise to manage it well, if young people lack life skills and values, there may be consequences including rape, having a language that is not official, my role is to stay with young people to educate them on life skills to build a better society”
Ngerengere Secondary School teacher Gibson Shigwa Luyagaza said, “GLAMI and its stakeholders are doing a very good thing to educate life skills and values to parents and teachers, I know different life skills, but I like to use “creativity” when I start writing an introduction to a certain topic in Class, I measure the student’s understanding by giving them a chance to discuss, so this issue is very important in the curriculum”
ALiVE training participants
Why ALiVE Phase Two Project?
The second phase of the ALiVE project is taking place after finding evidence from ALiVE Phase One, which conducted an assessment from 2020 to 2022 and then found out that young Tanzanians have a low proficiency in life skills and values.
In the issue of problem-solving, the ALiVE Report’s Phase One revealed that only 8 percent of young people between the ages of 13 and 17 can solve the problems they may face.
On the Zanzibar side as well as the problem-solving aspect, the report noted that 23% of young people find it difficult to identify the problem or its nature, so they cannot identify its solution. Also, One in Five (22%) of adolescents are proficient in self-awareness.
