27/7/2011: Today’s child awareness campaign was in Arap Moi Primary School in Kajiado district. A similar procedure to that of yesterday was followed. We however changed something slightly today. We did not allow the students to write their names on the essays. Instead we gave them numbers which they used on their essays and asked them to write their names on another piece of paper against their corresponding numbers. This was to avoid favoritism during marking.
The sensitization session was attended by 150 students (88 girls and 62boys).
A section of class eight students writing the essay.
John Chege, Ken Otieno and I spend some time with kids from the lower primary as we wait for the class eight students to finish writing their essays.
Kennedy Njuguna one of the class seven students, marking an essay.
Right: Second runner up Allan Kimani
Right: First runner up Philomena Wanjiku
Right: Winner, Florence Sanae
Sanae reading out her essay to the rest of the students during the sensitization session.
She broke down when explaining to her colleagues, the "dos and don'ts" following sexual assault (there was a creative slot during the session where the kids were free to -sing, rap, give a speech etc on child abuse). This was definitely one of the most memorable times during the awareness campaigns
