Life Skills and Peer Education for Chadian Youth

Within the Project Life Skills and Peer Education in Chad, this time we will tell you about thetraining of 32 peer educators for mototaxis drivers and also the training of 20 girls identified in the various partner schools.

The training of peer educator mototaxis drivers edition of 2017 it was held in Siloé / KOUNDOUL from 16 to 20 July 2017. This training helped to build the capacity of the 32 peer educator motorcycle taxi drivers at 12 sites of beneficiary motorcycle taxi drivers through training on CBT knowledge, peer education, programming and monitoring activities, lifeskill facilitation techniques, alcohol, tobacco, other drugs, HIV/AIDS, and drama. This training enabled the trained peers to improve the execution rate of animation programming and ensure better monitoring of activities among motorcycle taxi drivers in order to achieve the desired results. The evaluation of the knowledge acquired at the end of the training shows that, overall, the objectives have been achieved. The motorcycle taxi drivers proved it the day before the last day during the sensitization outing in Koundoul through the exchanges they had with the audience using the forum theatre. They generally had a sustained argument about the harmful effects of alcohol and tobacco, the consequences of sexual vagrancy and especially the use of Tramadol.

Many good commitments were made by the participants with regard to reducing their consumption and they showed a strong will to share the knowledge acquired with other colleagues.

Another very interesting and important training was the training of 20 girls identified in the various partner schools This year, CBT initiated a training course for girls who cannot leave the city of N' Djamena for a few days because of their parents' reluctance.

To enable them to acquire the same knowledge as those who take part in the youth training camp in Siloé, 20 peer educating girls from three high schools (the Amriguebé bilingual female high school, the Cheikh Hamdan high school, the Freedom High School) and the Baobab association took part in this training and acquired knowledge on different modules.

Innovation was the theme on gender-based violence. This is a first, the participants were active during the training. They took advantage of the space to talk freely about certain taboo subjects in friendly relations between boys and girls. They raised some facts about verbal harassment of their male colleagues that they and even at the family level. For many of them, talking about it not only relieves them, but also makes them fear to talk about it with their parents.

In order to provide an opportunity for the population of this Muslim-majority part of the city to become acquainted with CBT and its actions, the presentation of the certificates on the last day was combined with a recreational evening of exchanges with spectators. Every girl should invite at least ten people. This was the case and many questions were asked and the answers were given by the Deputy Secretary General of CBT present at the event. The issue will have to be addressed by the CBT authorities.

These are only two of many projects that Blue Cross with your support is implementing in Chad which have a very good impact on the youth people and they are very grateful for this. So, thank you again for your very evaluable support!