Not for SALE: Vol. 9 No.

2
March 2006
Young Talk
is FREE •Know your rights
Sex education for •Stay in school
primary schools
•Read your books

Put your time

•Be creative
•Wait to have sex

to good use My holiday

plans
I'm Robert Kaboyo.
I'm in P6 at Nsonkya PS,
Lyamabwa village, Kabarole.
During holidays it is my duty
Wake up! A new day has to graze and milk the cows.
started. You have many things In the morning I graze the
to do. Housework, get ready for cows near home, before
school, attend classes, meet milking them. I collect 10
friends, play, revise your books. cups of milk each day.
To do these things you need to use your After milking the cows I go
time well. Some young people do not to graze the cattle away
plan their time. This exposes them to from home until lunch time.
risky behaviour. When the cows rest, I play
football with my friends
Make a plan for the day to help you do while watching the cows.
your tasks well and at the right time.
I make sure the cows do
While making your plan ask yourself not go to people’s gardens.
what you want to achieve before the If they eat people’s crops,
day ends. my parents would have to
pay a lot of money to the
Start with first and important things in crop owners.
your plan. If it is time to be in class, do
not play. Go to class. During holidays you
have alot of time. If
What you do today can help you achieve you do not plan your
your future goals. time well, you can be
idle. Like Robert, find
Before doing something think about it. something useful to
How is it going to be of use to you? Is it do.
allowed at home, school? Do you have Robert Kaboyo
to do it in hiding or you can do it openly?

Avoid being idle. This may expose you to

bad peer groups. Put your time to good
use. Avoid doing things that can affect
your health, studies and future goals.

Make planning
for everyday a
habit
Make a plan for each day. Write down
your plans. It helps you to divide your
time well between work and play.
Start today. Before long it will be a
habit. Share your plan with someone
who can encourage you. Read page 2 and find out how young talkers spend their time. Journalist for the day
at work - Lillian
Mulungi and Lillian
•Get into the habit of planning
D i c t i o n a ryoyurself
Mpanja, Kamengo PS
your day to avoid idleness. Young Talk traveled to
Expose - To leav
e Kabarole and worked with
•Idleness can make you join bad unprotected
th at on e do es
Young talkers as journalist for
g
groups. Habit- A thin ith out thinking
the day. They collected
d al m os t w stories on friendships that
often an w aste time were used in the Feb issue of
•It can lead you into early sex, Idle - To do no th in g or
Young Talk.
smoking and taking alcohol.
YOUNG TALK IS FOR TEACHERS AND PUPILS IN P5, P6 AND P7
2 Young Talk, March 2006

Do first things first

House work
“When I wake up in the
morning, I help my parents to
wash plates, sweep the
compound then I go to fetch
water.
After fetching water, I have
breakfast then I wash clothes.

Then I help my mother to baby

sit as she prepares lunch for the
family.
After lunch I rest a bit before
going to play football or read
books. I also watch films. I Time to read: Okello Joseph,
always make sure that I do not 11, Kichinjaji PS, P6, Kumi
get idle. If you are idle, you can
end up doing bad things like
abusing people who are passing
by the road.
Okello Joseph, 11,
Kichinjaji PS, P6, Kumi
Time to wash dishes. Abulo Mary Immaculate,
10, P4, Stella Maris Nsuube, Mukono
“I always swee
le prayerke my bed. Before
p
wash toilets, w the compound,
as
water, wash clo h plates, fetch Say a litt
y a prayer before I ma
young sisters anthes and bath my “I wake up and sa breakfast, I
and wash dishes. After do. But in
e
a while I cook d brothers. Once in breakfa st I cle an th e ho us
me to
when my mum rk that they might give
at home. is not help with any other wo young brothers Camillus and Linus.
most cases I play with my neighbourhood
When I finish h lun ch I us ua lly pla y wi th my friends from the be
o After ther says she wants me
to
films, play footb use work, I watch
or I watch a film. My mo sure I do all that she tells me to do.”
walks.” Isaac all and take evening s
responsible so she make ate, 10, Stella Maris Nsuube,
Moru Apesu Opolot, 12, Im m ac ul
r PS, P7, K Abulo Mary
umi
P4, Mukono

romise
Love your
Keep the planning pur plans for the day with changing Time to play- Isaac Opolot,
are yo Activity: Sh 12, Moru Apesur PS, P7,
teachers. They will give
your parents/guardians or d your time well. At
you advice on how to sp
en
body Kumi

ea ch da y, loo k at your day's plan. Tick

the end of Pubic hair
off the things you did.
I was at home. My mother had
Close yourtod eyes. Think abteoutot ho go
w
od
bought nice clothes for my
the things you did ay can contribu birthday. As I was putting on
h and rel ati on sh ips wi th the clothes, my sister shouted
class performance, healt chers and friends.
tea at me saying that I had hair
your parents/guardians,
under the armpits. I felt bad. I
told her not to tell anybody. I

For teachers
was confused and did not
understand why that hair had
come.

On Monday in class, our

the year
Dear teachers, make your teacher brought Young TTalk alk
2006 more productive for for us to read. When my turn
to
pupils. Encourage them came to read, I saw a letter
the ir da y. Th is is a from a girl who asked if having
plan for
good habit that they ne ed hair in the armpits was bad.
even for the future. The answer was it was not
bad... It is normal. After
their
Encourage them to share reading it I felt better. Thank
itie s wi th yo u.
planned activ you for teaching me. Kisakye
Eva, P6, White Angels PS,
dangers of idleness.
Educate them about the of the people they Kampala Time to fetch firewood for
s
Ask them to share storie
ub le due to idleness. these children in Kabarole
know who got in tro

Dangers of putting last things first

I have a friend who used to deceive her parents that she was going for prep lessons. But she would go for discos with a man who used to give her gifts
(vaseline, necklace, shoes, bread). She was proud of her man. She advised me to get a man. I said no thank you. I have to complete my studies
first. I advised her to stop going with that man. She abused me. My friend later got pregnant, stopped learning and also got HIV. Irene Nahirya, P7, 14.
YOUNG TALK IS FOR TEACHERS AND PUPILS IN P5, P6 AND P7
4 Young Talk, March 2006
different ages for everyone. Some

DEAR
start as early as 11 and others at 14,
15 or 16.

Young TALK I live with my sister who

is married. Her husband
always requests me to play
la
P.O. B0X 22366 Kampa sex with him. But I always
refuse. What can I do?
Girl, 12, P7, Wakataayi PS,
Zirobwe-Luwero
If your mother and
Get help from an adult you can trust
father died of HIV/AIDS
and talk to them about what is
can you die of it? C.
happening. Maybe you could talk to
Ndayishimiye, P5, KCC PS,
your sister. Keep refusing.
Kamwokya
You can only die of HIV/AIDS if you
My friends told me that
have HIV. Not everyone whose
girls with big breasts are
parents died of HIV has HIV. But
used to playing sex. Is it
some babies are born with HIV. If the
true? P Katusiime, 14, P7,
mother has HIV, she may infect the
Bujaga School, Mbarara
baby during pregnancy, delivery or
Say no to sex: Pupils of Kamudindi PS, Kiboga No! The size of girls’ breast has
breastfeeding. But this doesn’t
nothing at all to do with having sex.
happen to all babies. Today there are
Each girl is created differently, and
medicines called ARVs, which can
breasts come in all sizes whether one
help people living with HIV including
has had sex or not. Don’t feel bad if
children, live a healthier life for many
people laugh. You know you are not
years. The best way for someone to
having sex, and that is all that
know if have HIV is by taking an HIV
matters.
test.
Can a girl get HIV when
During menstruation
she kisses an infected
where does blood come
person? L. Basemera, 12,
from? G. Kembabazi, P5,
P6, Hamukungu PS, Kasese
KCC PS, Kamwokya
Saliva may not contain enough HIV
Menstrual blood comes from the
virus to infect someone. But
uterus. During puberty, your ovaries
sometime people living with HIV
begin to release eggs (ova) to
have wounds in their mouth that
prepare for fertilisation and baby
may bleed. If you kiss this person,
growth. A thick layer of tissue and
you could easily get infected. If
blood cells build up in your uterus in
someone is infected, their blood
preparation for a baby. If an egg is
usually has high concentrations of
fertilised by a sperm during sex, it
HIV.
will grow inside your uterus and
develop into a baby thus a
Some people say that if
pregnancy. But since you are young
you put on trousers, you
and not having sex, the egg will be
become a prostitute. Is it
no fertilisation and no baby. Now the
true? M Nabukalu, 11, P6,
tissue and blood cells that had
Bright Star PS, Entebbe-
formed in preparation for the baby
Wakiso
are not needed by the body. These
Putting on trousers doesn’t make you
turn into a blood-like fluid and flow
a prostitute. However, avoid wearing
out of the vagina as the menstrual
trousers that expose your body parts
blood. Menstruation usually happens
like belly button or your buttocks.
once a month.
This could attract sex demands from
males.
Can a girl of 11 years
produce a baby? H. Counselors:
Kimuli, 13, Nabingora Dr. Edrine Namayanja,
Parents School, Mubende Patricia Nansamba Wamala
Yes, a girl of 11 years can produce a
baby if she has sex. Having a baby is
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one is, but by the fact that one is countrywide. Pupils of Sky Standard PS, Mayuge
having sex. Wait to have sex to
protect yourself from the dangers of
early pregnancy, HIV/STDs.

If a girl is a virgin and Write to Young Tath lk about

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she has sex with a boy the story of the froin m
does she get pregnant? E. you have lea rn t
your brothers anha d
Namukose, 13, P6, Busia ppy
Border PS sisters. Are you ve
with wh at yo u ha
Yes. It doesn’t matter, whether one learnt from them? he How
is a virgin or not. Once you have sex, th es e th in gs lped
have
you can get pregnant. Besides or not helped yo u?
pregnancy you could also get
infected with HIV/STDs.

Can a boy of 13 grow Publisher: STRAIGHT TALK FOUNDATION

down hairs (pubic hair)?
A. Barugahare, P6, Kengwe
PS, Masaka
Yes, a boy of 13 can grow pubic hair.
Growing pubic hair is a normal
change that occurs to both boys and
girls during adolescence. It starts at
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