Once a week, usually on Fridays, I go with Stephen from the Family Life Office in a school in the diocese .
A school would just like to describe in more detail. We were in Lassine what near the village Nkor content. But the ride on the cross bike lasts two hours. With a car it would take longer. For me as a passenger, it is beautiful but the landscape observed. I wear a rain poncho over my clothes because of the road dust.
In Lassine I had not noticed that we are in a school, as we drive into the yard. The school existed only since one year.
There is a wooden shed, are taught in the form I and II and from a building Mud bricks, which come under the form of classes III to V.
We are warmly received, although no one can recall having received a letter with the announcement of our visit. This usually happens almost always when we come into a school.
But one is spontaneous and the form classes II and III will be informed that the provider should be present in a classroom. In the meantime
shows us the principal, Gilbert, the foundation for the future classrooms. Unfortunately, there are no toilets. You still are not planned, because once the classrooms built.
We keep our presentation to the 98 students. It starts with an introduction such as human life is created, that is enlightenment. What happens at puberty, which in sexual intercourse. Then comes the question of what this can threaten human life. And we go to different things, such as abortion, disease, and of course AIDS. How do you put in with HIV? How is the disease? And what about an AIDS test?
in society or in their parents' generation sex is often still a taboo. The children are told nothing and the prostitution of girls is very high. There is widespread that sex is only for satisfaction of the man. Although many men today officially married only once, it is common for a few friends to have. The married women is the way it does not matter if her husband is sleeping with other women when they get the money to maintain herself and the children. This obviously a great extent to the spread of HIV.
We try to give students an awareness that we deal responsibly with his body and sexuality and sex should not have to share with everyone.
And of course, the students get opportunity to ask questions. The question was from a girl: "Can we also infected with AIDS, if you do not its Days has got "- What is the saying? If it was not yet in puberty, it is better to sleep with any man.
As the Family Life Office only has the possibility of one or two plays to get to a school, we are building clubs. A group of students may be with a teacher that are used by us with material, the content they distribute among the others.
After our talk, we are invited in the staff room for a beer and peanuts. The staff room is located under the mango tree consisting of a bank.
the old and the new staff room - The school principal, his wife and 2 teachers
I get something telling about the school: As I said, it exists for a year. In the first year the school had 300 students, only 18 teachers. That there is so far away from Kumbo in a small village a school allows many children to attend secondary school. There are also two married women who already have several children, and now in second grade, because they have started last year with the school.
The fee is quite low at 35 000 francs per year (50 €). However, it is difficult for many to pay, because half of the students orphans are living with their grandparents or other relatives.
It's nice to see how much effort the teachers and above all, the principal couple.
We say goodbye and make our way back.
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