By Suthida Longaew | OB and Church Network Regional Facilitator
Saturday Training For Children And Youth At Risk Of Substance Abuse Project
In the past five months, we continued providing various activities to develop children’s life includes Saturday training programs, home visits, parental training and children’s camp following this;
Weekly activities included learning the Superbook lesson, Life skill training, and sport activity. We had home visits to distribute relief kits 3 times in each month. Our program coordinator strictly adheres to the preventive measure of coronavirus pandemic. The target group of children have shown their enthusiasm in coming to the Saturday School. 90% of children attend the activities given regularly and the youth leader group who responsible for holding the activities were more responsible in taking care of the younger children. The minister starts the new activity is the Sexuality Education Program in March. The first topic will be “How to prepare yourselves for becoming a teenager”. The class was separated into boys and girls.
In January, Pai District’s Chief officer had come to give gifts to the children. They appreciated this program in creating a stage for the children to study, practice consistently, obtain knowledge, build good ethics and morality that becomes a good prevention and protection for the children.
The minister held a parent’s network meeting. We had given the parents information about child abuse and the children’s studies on the topic of Preventing Sexual Abuse to children and preventing from losing children. The children’s grades this semester have improved and they have gotten better at being responsible in their duties. They able to stop bad behaviors and practice to good behavior. The children help to clean the Church and the areas around the center after they learned about love shown in actions before going home.
After the parent meeting, the parents reflected that they learnt how to protect their children and use the knowledge they received to teach their children at home and use the knowledge to protect their children at home. The minister provides one cartridge of eggs for each family.
Pin’s grandmother had shared to us after joining the parent meeting that the meeting was very beneficial. “In the past, there was a child who was sexually abused in the community and I am concerned for her two granddaughters. At first, I didn’t know how to teach my grandchildren, but after learning in this meeting, there were methods and guidance in teaching my grandchildren and how to take care of them as well. Thank you for the information and the knowledge from today.
This is a story of children in the program named. Her nickname is Malachi. She is 9 years old and studying in grade 3 at the Ban Pa Yang School. She said “I come to the Saturday school with P’Moses and Aekeu. The three of us are siblings. My father’s name is Paeo , 48 years old and my mother’s name is Naja , 36 years old. I have four siblings and I am the third child. I have one younger brother who is 1 years old. My father is a farmer and my mother works as a janitor. When she is free, she would sew clothes and sell them. When I am at home, I am very happy. After coming back from school, I would help my mother with the house chores such as fetching water and giving food for the pigs, sweeping the house, and washing the dishes. I have been joining this program since grade 1 and I really like coming here. I enjoy with songs and activities given. Moreover, the food here is very delicious and the Superbook lessons are so much fun. The children in this program are come from many different villages such as Ban Maung Soi and Mor Paeng, Ban Mai Sahasampun, and some from the same village as me. The children who have been trained in this program are all very kind and we don’t use swear words or argue with others or hit each other. The minister here teaches us to love and take care of each other. I am quite small, but there are more younger children who are smaller than me. So, I will take care of them just like how my brothers/ sisters here took care of me. I also like learning the Superbook lesson. I would like to thank the Saturday School project for providing a safe place for me on Saturday and I have received a better chance than many children.”
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By Suthida Longaew | OB and Church Network Regional Facilitator
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