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Tue, 01/28/2020 - 09:04
You are doing great work.
When you posted this, you were at the piloting phase. How are things going thus far?
I may know some people who would be happy to help in terms of human resource.
The Secondary School Mentorship Program component holds mentorship sessions in all the secondary schools in Salima district. (The district has over 30 secondary schools). This was established after noting that many secondary school students drop out of school and to those that proceed; they fail to achieve their dreams because they lack guidance and motivation in the form of role models. To effectively run the program, the organization leverages the presence, position, and skills of university students and graduates from the district who volunteer to visit secondary schools and speak to students on various topics. The volunteer-mentors mentors act as role models and encourage the students through group and individual interactions. The topics that these mentors present include Achieving Academic Excellence, Resisting Peer Pressure, Women Empowerment, Time Management Skills, Conserving Natural Resources and Career Choices. So far, the program has managed to reach ten schools, reaching out to a total of two thousand students. The program plans to reach out to twenty schools before the end of the year 2019.