Do It Yourself Club

This month Komo Learning Centres is back in schools with Do It Yourself (DIY) project.  2020 in 20 schools, isn’t that amazing? The Uniqueness this time comes with Teacher’s training. We are to involving the school administration through the training as well as empowering them to understand the project hence making a firm foundation for sustainability purpose. Some of the topics teacher are under going include, Youth Adult partnership, Financial Literacy, power dynamics, Creative class room, self awareness among others. We believe an empowered teacher can always do better in service provision toward the students we are to work with in DIY. Keep following our blog for news and stories.

 Submit to the DIY Blog!!!

1. Welcome to my school/an introduction to your school
2. What is the greatest challenge your generation faces?  Why?
3. What do you understand by youth participation and what role does it have in the school environment? How has the DIY changed your opinion on youth participation?
4. What is the most memorable moment you have had in learning life skills with the DIY club?
5. How do you define “success” and “achievement”?  What is your greatest success or achievement?
6. Does life skills help students perform better?
7. What is something that you have “done by yourself” and why are you proud of it?
8. Do you believe in gender equality? Why or why not? Guidelines for DIY Blog Submissions
   We are giving students creative freedom to submit materials for blog post about their school environment and topics that interest them. These materials include stories, essays, poems, think/opinion pieces, photographs, videos, voice recordings, songs etcetera about their lives, the school environment and their experience with the DIY Project. These submissions can either be a collection of ideas and stories from your school mates through interviews or it can be written by one person. Here are ideas for topics that you can choose from. You can create your own topic or choose a theme or topic from this list below to get you started! Remember your submission can be in any form of art or writing.

Talk to your DIY IT Mentors about how to submit this to the DIY blog! Good luck and we look forward to your entire creativeness!

When we say do it your self, We mean making something by your self to bring positive impact in your life, your family and the community you leave in. Mt. St. Henry’s SS in Mukono is one of the schools where Komo Learning centers DIY Club exists. Its also one of the pioneer schools we started with in 2017. Amazingly their first project was about book making because it could help parents reduce on the cost of the books as a family support, and for the school , skills were acquired by a number of club members of which they are passing them onto new students. This wraps up the beauty of DO IT YOURSELF.

There are more than 10 new unique projects being worked on by our current schools to be implemented in 2020. We are excited about the projects because they cross cut in various sectors from agriculture, environment protection, Food processing, Entertainment, Health to mention but a few.

As we wide up 2019, We have received a number of individual messages from all the schools that we work with. Allan Crispus Tamba (in middle) is the DIY Club president at St. Balikuddembe SS Kisoga as well as the Vice prime minister on the school students leadership body. Allan shared with us his message and Feeling about Do It Yourself Club in his school before the end of the year 2019.

“Hurray!! Its November again…, School gets boring and we are now waiting for promotions into another class or even another level of education, For heaven’s sake, it is all hell for this week. Anyway those are my days, You must be also having yours at school as A DIY fellow or at home as an individual.

However, let me hit the nail straight to the head. I am actually just telling you about what  we learnt from our sessions in this short term.

We had “A goal setting and mind set change” session.  If you can actually contemplate about those topics, you realize we are for real. Aahh… There  is this interesting session i still remember, “Gender and Sex”, It is a mind blowing and interesting one.

To sum it up, we also had “Power dynamics” where we were told of how power is misused and how it should be used. If i were a prophet, I would write a scroll bout DIY but am just A TAMBA :)!. So I only have the capability to put little down for your attention.

If you have read this and you don’t appreciate who taught me, then you are unlucky , look out for the great mentors #SHAKA and #FORTUNATE from Komo Learning Centers

Anyway I would like to wish you A NICE HOLIDAY and MERRY X-MAS 🙂 Hope its not to early. Till then.'”

A piece by Tamba Allan Crispus 

DIY St. Balikuddembe SSS Kisoga

http://www.komolearningcentres.org

My name is ssewanyana bashir From well star bright  secondary school .Am here to talk to about goal setting session. before  joining  DIY club at our school I used to setup goals but I wasn’t able to achieve them because my goals were not smart. But after DIY Club at school i learnt how to set goal setting   from the session i got from our mentors. i discovered the reasons to why I wasn’t able to achieve my goals and now i know how to set  smart goal. What I mean by smart goal

(S) Specific,

(M) Measurable,

(A) Attainable,

(R) Relevant or re warding,

(T) Time bound.

Since then , I set up my goals without any difficult  because I know the 5 steps of goal setting process and these are (1)define what you want to do,(2)find congruence ,(3) do an ecology check,(4)develop a blue print (5) drawing the motivation to achieve your goal.   I thank klc for the support they are giving us such that we are able to build up our thinking capacity and helping us to set our goals and how to  achieve them

#DIY CLUB FOREVER#

Self Awareness is having a clear perception of your personality, including strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, motivation, and emotions. Self Awareness allows me to understand other people, how they perceive me, my attitude and my responses to them. In this  moment

Self awareness is important because when I have a better understanding of myself, I am able to experience myself as unique and separate individual. I am then empowered to make changes and to build on my areas of strength as well as identify areas where I would like to make improvements. Self–awareness is important in every aspect of my life because it means that I have a sound understanding of who am I as a person and how I relate to the world in which I live in. when I am self-aware, I know my strengths, weaknesses and how to manage them at my school and at home

How I have benefited in self awareness skills enriched emotional intelligence and greater empathy and listening skills,

Improved critical-thinking skills and decision making; Strengthened communications and relationships; and. enhanced leadership capabilities and capacity

Thanks KLC for your support which has helped us to improve on our skills

Do you know what self-confidence is?

Do you know how to build up your self-confidence?

Self-confidence, Is one’s ability to judge his own social and personal standing with respect to his environment and be able to derive satisfaction out of it.

Things you can do to build up your self-confidence.

• Visualize yourself as you want to be.
• Affirm yourself.
• Do one thing that scares you every day.
• Question your inner critic….
• Take the 100 days of rejection challenged.
• Set yourself up to win.
• Help someone else.
• Care for yourself.

On behalf of mentors ,am Kevin IT /M&E support DIY  project let me take this opportunity to welcome you all from holiday and we think you had wounder full time at home and thanks for  using our social media plat form productively and we promise you to resume our programs as soon as possible in schools .For any success story any thing you feel its inspirational  please be in touch with our mentors or project officers    .GOD BLESS YOU ALL ,See you there

My name is Babirye Christine   mentor from Komo learning centers Do it yourself project  , am feeling  very happy whenever I stand in front  of youth facilitating to them this practical skills and by the end of day I see youth taking the lead in that activity I lead .I feel inspired when I see youth am mentoring improved in both life skills (problem solving ,public speaking ,critical thinking ,self esteem) , and practical skills( booking making , chalk making , key holder ). I enjoy my mentorship at komo learning centers because it has built my capacity in terms of life skills which helps me in this daily life more especially in this 21^st centre. I myself I believe everything is possible, that is if you love it and have passion in what you’re doing .life become better and Good

BABIRYE CHRISTINE  

Diy mentor Komo learning centre