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Youth Center at St. Mary´s Girls Primary School in Karonga
In 2017 - with financial support from BMZ - we established a youth centre at St.
Mary's Girls Primary School, where young people can inform themselves about all issues
related to sexual health, family planning, women's rights, HIV prophylaxis and the
consequences of progressive population growth.
The aim of this pilot project, which was carried out in close cooperation between
the school and our local project partner IIWD, was to build up an organisational
structure that would allow sustainable and effective work in the field of "Reproductive
Health" to be established in the long term.
For this purpose, a "peer group" of specially trained teachers and students was formed
within the framework of this project, which was limited to one year from the outset,
in order to
- Establish the topic of reproductive health and all related issues in the school curriculum.
- Create an organisational structure that allows this topic to be continued and promoted
in a sustainable and continuous manner even after the end of the project.
- Ensure the maintenance of the peer group in the long term and beyond the project
by selecting, training and integrating new teachers and students.
Corona and the Consequences for the Youth Center in Karonga
This project would not have been possible without the financial support of the BMZ,
the German Federal ministry for economic copperation and development, and many donations
from individuals. We would like to express our sincere thanks for this help, also
on behalf of the teachers and pupils of St. Mary's Girls Primary School in Karonga.
At the end of 2018, we provided another 3,000 euros to improve the catastrophic water
supply at the school by drilling a water hole and building a well.
At the same time, Mr. Rodney Chitete, the new headmaster of St. Mary's Girls Primary
School, promised us that under his leadership, the youth centre would be continued
for a period of at least 5 years and that the topic of Sexual and Reproductive Health
(SRH) would be anchored in the school's curriculum in the long term.
Due to the Corona pandemic and the associated long-term assembly restrictions and
school closures, our youth centre at St. Mary's Girls Primary School in Karonga could
unfortunately not continue in the planned form. In the meantime, many members of
the peer group, who were supposed to pass on their knowledge to subsequent grades,
have unfortunately also left the school, so that a resumption of activities no longer
seems sensible.
