Not for SALE: Vol. 9 No.

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Young Talk April 2006

is FREE •Know your rights

Sex education for •Stay in school
primary schools
•Read your books

Think of your •Wait to have sex

•Plan your future

future family This year, Straight Talk

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
Foundation (STF) is going You will be required to
to give GRAND PRIZES to show proof that you
schools that participate in have read and used six
our GRAND COMPETITION. issues of Young Talk with
your class in 2006. The
There will be MATH SETS COMPETITION will be
for pupils, BICYCLES for running EVERY MONTH
teachers and LATRINE starting MAY.
STANCES for schools as DON'T MISS.
well as many other
AMAZING GIFTS

Journalist
for the day
a View PS
Veronica Natambi of Ntind
An drew
in Kampala interviewed ing
ily pla nn
Nasasira about fam
family?
How many are you in your
We are five childre n in the fam ily.
Are you all in school?
n is too
Four of us are in school. The last bor
young and is at home.
?
What is your own life dream
I want to become a lawyer.
want to
What kind of family do you
Think about your future. How have?
Look around. Find out how up. I know I
many children do you want to have I want three children when I grow
many you are in the family. Look at and support
when you grow up? Family planning is the neighbouring family. can be able to care for them well
a service that gives you information them to study hard.
on having the number of children you How big is it? Think of what you see or
can care for very well. Family experience. Are they finding it easy to meet
planning helps parents to have the education costs of their children? Are
children when they are ready for there some children who have dropped out
them. It is safe and healthy. due to money problems? What about clothes
and medical care? Is it easy or difficult to
Young Talk went to Sironko and asked pupils manage? What about feeding condition.
about the kind of families they want to have Think about housing. Is the house they are
when they grow up. living in big enough to accommodate them
"We are eight children. I want to have only four well? These are some of the
so I can control them. It will be easy for me to questions that can help you develop
educate few children. Feeding them will also be an idea of size and quality of your
easy. It will also be easy for me to dress them up. future family.
When they are few, they will also be able to sleep
well because the house will be big enough for Read more about what Sironko
them". said Musa Lukhoolam, 12, P7, children say on page!
Muyembe Boys PS, Sironko
YOUNG TALK IS FOR TEACHERS AND PUPILS IN P5, P6 AND P7
2 Young Talk, April 2006

Family planning
can help families A well planned family
can provide medical
to be financially
strong
We are eight children. I live with

care to children
my brother because my father is
harsh. I want to have four
children. These will not take too
much money for things like school
fees and clothes. Poverty is too
much these days. So I have to be
careful. Boy, 16, Sironko PS bit
Best haen d in mind.
Begin with the
I want one man ning my
“I am not only plan g of
in my life education but thinkinmy
how I want to raise to
t
When I grow up I want to get children, how I wan what
married to only one man in my an d
teach my family
e should
life. If you are married to one kind of home life w ote
person you will be free with him have” A stud en t’s qu
because all the children in the ok titled:
picked from the bo highly
family will be his. The seven habits of
Ritah Nabukwasi, 13, P6, s.
effective teenager
Muyembe Girls PS, Sirokno

h
I want enoug
land for my
children We are rents.
I live with my pa the last
I am
eight children. arry one
m
born. I want to ve two
t to ha
wife. I wan
e I will lack land
children becaus ren if I
ild
to give all the ch nthony
e m an y. A
produc
, Nabbongo
Mauso,18, P7
PS, Sironko

Avoid big
families Family plannin
When I grow u • You to have the g allows:
four children. p, I want to have number of childre
n you can
It educate and give
small number is good to have a • You have the nu medical care
Parents feel
you can care fo m
happy when
For us we are
nine in the fam r. • One have the nu ber you can feed. they can afford
m
ily. fit in one house w ber of children that can to take their
I advise my frie ith
sleeping on the flo out some of them children for
big families bec nds not to have •Parents make sa or for lack of space .
treatment.
will suffer. Th ause the children vings Family
ey buy farmland or to which can help them
fees, food, an will lack school • Mothers remain start up a business
planning
d
Beatrice Na clothes. he
•Parents not to w althy and strong
promotes
P6, Gangambukwasi, 13,
health
orry about school
a PS, Siron because they can fees
ko afford
•Each baby get a
chance to grow w
another is born ell before

big
But I want a
family in my family. I am the
Teacher says
We are seven children I am married. I have two
ant to have 8
third born. I w p. I also want to have two children but I intend to have
when I grow u e first one will get old four. This is the number I can
th
wives because my grandmother here in
easily. I live w it h
Kampala. afford with my limited
M y parents live in resources.
the village. isano, 15,
Amuza NamPS, Sironko • Family planning is safe
Bungwanyi I have decided so because: and healthy
Advice wife
o t ri g h t to m arry a second ill grow • I want to give enough love and attention to my
• Know what kind of family
It is n ink the first on
ew children.
because you th g care of your wife well • I want to give them good medical care. you want to have in future
n
old faster. Taki te at which she wears • I alslo want to educate all my children very well. If
can slow th e ra too many • Family planning helps you
they are so many, I will fail.
ple, producing
out. For exam f medical care can make a • It they are too many, they can walk naked have a healthy family
o
children, lack ld faster. As you grow because I will be to poor to buy clothes for all.
g ro w o from • Avoid early unwanted
woman ab out family life Ms Eva Bukirwa, teacher, St Mary's PS,
up, le ar n m o re rkers. pregnancy. It is one sign of
and health wo Njeru, Jinja
your teachers a poorly planned family
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meeting her. Keep in transmission. This happens during does not mean you have broken
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company of your friends. pregnancy, delivery and breast virginity.
Form a club where you feeding.

Young TALK
read together, and get I have very tiny breasts.
involved in useful and safe HIV can also be transmitted through When I am in my
activities in your sharing of sharp instruments like periods, they disappear
la
P.O. B0X 22366 Kampa community. razorblades, blood transfusion of
infected blood. But today in Uganda
completely. But when I am
out of my periods, they re-
Is it true that if you all blood is tested before it is put in appear. Girl,13, P6,
are not 18 you cannot the body of another person. Kamunyiga PS, Ntungamo

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I am a virgin. Some make a girl pregnant? The hormones that the body
friends say I am Gilbert Musana, 14, Some people have told produces during the menstrual cycle
abnormal because I do not Rwaramba PS, Kisoro me that you lose virginity may lead to changes in the size of
show any movement when I It is not true. Body changes start as when you climb a tree or the breasts but this is normal.
am tickled. Is this true? R early as 10 years for girls and 12 for ride bicycle. Is it true? Don’t worry about your breasts. As
Mugarura, 13, P6, Iruhuura boys. That is the time a boy's body Justine Ayo, S1, St Mary you grow older, they will change in
PS, Fort Portal starts producing sperms. That means Girls SS, Madera, Soroti size. Above all, there is nothing
Being inactive when tickled does not even at 12, a boy can make a girl No! Virginity is lost when one has wrong with small breasts, even
mean that you are abnormal. You are pregnant. penetrative sex. However, the when one becomes a mother.
normal. Different people react hymen is very thin and may stretch
differently to touch. Why do some girls in with vigorous activity like riding a Counselor: Dr Namayanja Edrine
primary have sex with bicycle or climbing trees. But this
I have girls who are villagers? Dina Watuwa, 15,
friendly to me. But some Wansale PS Kamuli
boys are telling me to start Some are misled and think it is a
sex with them. I am refusing

Bird flu alert

source of getting material things
but the boys are putting such as money from men. Some
pressure on me. Frank girls lack the courage to say NO!
Nuwagaba, 16, P7, Kasheshe Early sex is wrong, no matter who
PS, Mbarara you have it with. Learn to respect
Having friends who are girls does not and protect yourself. Say NO to early Bird flu is not in Uganda! eggs well before eating.
mean that you should start having sex. Stick to education. But it is important to • Report any dead or sick birds to
sex with them. Your friends are
know about it in case a veterinary officer.
putting wrong pressure on you. Some people say HIV is it comes. • Change shoes and clothes
Ignore what they are saying. spread through sex while Bird flu is a viral and wash hands before and
others say it is got through disease that kills after working with
My father does not pregnancy. Which one is domestic and poultry.
want to pay my school true? Mediace Munezero, wild birds. • Regularly clean where
fees because two of my P6, Arya PS, Kampala Restock your you keep your poultry:
sisters got pregnant while HIV is spread through many ways. poultry houses, sweep away droppings daily.
they were in school. Esther The main one is through having sex and keep enjoy- • Avoid visiting other poultry
Nali, 14, P7, Buleguyi PS, with an infected person. Other ways ing chicken and farms. Avoid hunting wild birds
Bugiri include; mother to child eggs. But for food
always do the Brought to you by the Poultry Asso-
Talk to an adult you think your father
following:• Cook poultry and ciation of Uganda and ASPS, DANIDA
can listen to.This may be a relative,
an elder in the village, a church
leader or a teacher. You can then talk
to your father after he has met any
of these people. Convince your
father that you are interested in
education and will not disappoint
him.

I am 14 but I have not

yet started
menstruation. This worries
me. I hear girls start
menstruation at 11.
Margaret Atuhairwe, P7,
Butema Church of Uganda
PS, Hoima
There is no specific age at which girls
start menstruation. Some start as
early as 9 while others start even
after 14. So do not get worried.Your
time will come. At your age, you only
need to have the information on
how to handle menstruation when it
comes.

I met a drunken old

woman who forced me into
sex. We have been together
since then. What can I do to
leave her? Boy, 12, Manya
PS, Kyotera
You are too young to be involved in
sex. According to Ugandan law, STRAIGHT TALK FOUNDATION
Pupils of St
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indecent assault. She can be
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