By Chabu Kapota | Communications Assistant
Thank you for the financial support that you and local fundraisers have shared with us during and after the Mentorship programme. We have always been delighted to share with you the progress we have made with the programme for teens.
Over the past 6 months after the mentorship programme for teens ended, our social support team have made routine family follow-ups with children and parents that took part in the mentorship programme. We have also started a pilot project called Shield that we are facilitating at Katombora Reformatory School and Nakambala Approved School.
During the Family follow-ups, the boys in Chainda and Kanyama expressed gratitude for the mentorship programme and they stated that the programme helped them believe in themselves and they have started thinking of becoming better versions of themselves. They have also shared some of their favourite topics they had during their group counselling such as drug abuse and sexual abuse.
Amazingly, those that didn’t want to go back to school during the mentorship programme are now expressing interest to go back to school. Visits with the parents have proved to be fruitful. The parents have expressed gratitude for the continued positive change of behaviour of the children and they feel the relationships with their children have improved.
UP Zambia is also currently running a version of the Mentorship programme at Katombora Reformatory School and Nakambala Approved School under a pilot project called Shield. The project is seeking to understand the cycle of sexual violence in detention facilities through activities such as counselling, Art lessons/Art therapy, Sexual Reproductive Health Education and sports.
The focus of the Shield Project will be on 150 children from Katombora for a period of 10 weeks and 50 children Nakambala Approved School for a period of 5 weeks.
We hope to carry out a 3rd cohort of the mentorship programme in an additional community in Lusaka called Matero and to run a similar project like Shield in Kamwala Remand Correctional Facility in the next half of the year 2023 if funds allow.
We thank you all for the support you have made to this programme through your financial support.
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