“The Reverend Richard Mallow had been less steely than his wife about their sinful daughter but had also been persuaded that she must marry David. At once, said Lorna. As soon as possible.” — Page 49 of An Equal Stillness By Francesca Kay Why do parents do that? Why do parents have to force girls in to marriage like that? Why do parents distance themselves from their responsibility to their children after such ‘Disaster‘? Why do parents who have not be involved in their children lives get the right to decide what should be done when such ‘Disaster‘ happens? In the book I am reading, a story from 1924, there…
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Young People To Young People #ItsNotOnItsNotSafe
Lets put this out of the way, if its not on its not safe, yes the condom!! Protect yourself, use a condom. Working with young people at Reach A Hand has made so proud of my generation and we can do to better the lives of others. These young people are Reach A Hand with their slogan, ‘Young people for Young People’ are making sure that other young people get access to sexual reproductive health information and services through different approaches like music projects, Flash mobs, social media campaigns, plays, games and peer educator training. This week, I travelled with the Reach A Hand team to Kisenyi a Kampala slum.…
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Comprehensive Sexuality Education For All Young People
Do you know that few young people receive adequate preparation for their sexual lives? With this in consideration these young people are potentially vulnerable to coercion, abuse and exploitation, unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV. When we were growing up our aunties gave us the ‘Ssenga’ brief of being a woman and the uncles talked to the boys, now days the young people are for themselves and the internet for God all of us. Many young people approach adulthood faced with conflicting and confusing messages about sexuality and gender which has left them feeling embarrassed, silent and disapproving open discussion of sexual matters by adults, including parents…
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#Sex And #Technology
Let me begin this post with a quote, “Preparing children and young people for the transition to adulthood has always been one of humanity’s great challenges, with human sexuality and relationship at its core. Today, in a world with AIDS, how we meet this challenge is our most important opportunity in breaking the trajectory of the epidemic.” Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, UNAIDS This is where technology comes…. Very many innovations have been created by people to receive a range of conflicting and confusing or correct and informative messages about sexuality and gender as a whole. Technology’s fundamental purpose is improve what what we do better and it is no secret, we do a lot of sex! This is…
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Facebook Friend-zoned By Snap Chat Until Maybe Next Year…
It is Friday. Hmm Okay, nice. Opens laptop and looks for technology and development related News. She goes through News Republic and Feedly, ‘yeah, yeah Samsung and Apple are up against each other again. I wonder why they can’t just join arms and resources, become SamApple Inc or Corporation’ she thought. From her understanding, technologies change every day and maybe with all these fights between the two giants some form of joint venture will happen some day. She continues reading her news updates and there it is Facebook offered SnapChat $3bn. ‘You must be kidding me, you cant have two photo sites Mark’ she told herself. Facebook already has Instagram…
