CAREGIVER’S FORUM MEETINGS AND GOOD PARENTING SESSIONS
JDPC staff facilitating gender norm session and good parenting with caregivers
To foster gender equality, foster good parenting skill and raise the level of awareness of caregivers on gender related issues that affect families, JDPC Nsukka formed caregivers’ forums in all the major communities in Nsukka and Uzo-uwani and used the opportunity of the forum to educate parents on some sensitive issues that are usually neglected but which matters in family parenting.
During the sessions, women were encouraged to engage in sex education with their adolescent girls so that they don’t go outside and get the wrong information from friends that will destroy them. Also, during the forum meetings, parents were encouraged to prioritize their both male and female children and avoid attaching less importance to their female children and their education. The forum is a full dose of family related program, and many families now testify to benefit of the program in their lives.
- FACILITATION OF KIDS AND ADOLESCENT CLUB MEETINGS IN COMMUNITIES
To curb the spread of HIV/AIDS, unwanted pregnancy, and other sexually transmitted infections among adolescents and children in communities and to foster good social norm and personal hygiene among adolescents, JDPC Nsukka enlightened children and adolescents on proper sex education, personal hygiene, proper dressing, and good behaviors. The program officer mainstreamed psychosocial support in the training of the participants of program. He requested the adolescents to narrate some of the challenges they encounter in their adolescent stage. Majority of the adolescents started narrating their challenges ranging from the urge for intimacy, hormonal effects on mood, disagreements with parents, peer groups influences, etc.
the program officer then informed the adolescents that the feelings they see is normal and that the way they handle the challenge affect every aspect of their life.
- JDPC NSUKKA FACILITATES SENSITIZATION CAMPAIGNS AGAINST DRUG ABUSE AMONG YOUTHS AND ADOLESCENTS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS WITHIN NSUKKA DIOCESE
Between May and June 20223, JDPC Nsukka implemented Caritas Nigeria’s Sensitization Campaigns against drug and substance abuse by youths and Adolescents in Secondary schools. This campaign became necessary following the high rate of drug and substance abuse among youths and Adolescents which has led to a devastating effect on their mental well-being and consequently robbed off negatively on families, and the society at large. During the campaigns, the facilitators encouraged the students to desist from all forms of drug abuse as they will harm their lofty dreams and future once they give in to drug abuse.
The students were also encouraged to resist the pressure by their peers to taste drugs as it will be more difficult for them to stop that to start. The students were further reminded of all the negative effects of drug abuse to include: early death, madness and all forms of mental disorder, lost of focus and live dreams, enemy of self and traitor to others, abject poverty, etc. The students were finally encouraged to be addicted to their dreams and not to hard drugs.