Meet Esther and Manaaz: Budding Hip Hop Artists!

My name is Esther Mahando and my sister’s name is called Manaaz. When we became friends we were in Class Seven in Langata when Manaaz almost knocked me down. We were in different schools then, but in Form One, we joined the same school. Apparently Esther's parent died and she is left with her older sister who is married.

Manaaz and I are best friends, just like sisters. We both love music and we are very passionate about it. We both love hip-hop and write hip-hop songs. Manaaz is kind of shy but she can rap too. Everywhere we go we must sing songs. Music is just in our minds, but the problem is we do not have any connection or anyone who can help us with our music.

We also play basketball. We really hope our music dream will come true. We love music so much that we find ourselves dancing, singing and writing songs. We hope to get anyone who can help us with that and we will appreciate it. We aint gonna let anyone down. 

Girl Power Club has helped us learn more about ourselves and know as girls we have a right and ability to pursue our dreams. I have also learnt how to deal with peer pressure, and how to deal with emotions my emotions as a young girl.

May dreams come true #stay blessed.

You can find Manaaz on FaceBook: Beanca da hiphopean gyal          Page: Manaaz da real

Girl Power May-June Report 2015

Karama Girl Power Club

Karama Academy Are New Members
The month of June came with blessings we are happy to welcome a new club into our family, the Girl Power Club from Karama Academy. They are a young a school found in Olympic area in Kibera. The club here has twenty young confident girls as members. We hope to enroll more girls as the school grows.

Fallen Head of sunken toilet at Katakwa

Rains Affect State of Hygiene In Katakwa and Road Access To Tingare and other parts of Siaya

The rains in parts of the country have been extremely high and caused a lot of problems, including flooding and fatalities, and also made it impossible for our staff and volunteers to reach many schools. The patron Katakwa secondary school informed us that the girls in the school are having a hard time since they do not have toilets which sunk due to the rainy weather. This was particularly so for many of the schools in Siaya County, which has a very poor road network. However, there was a strong attempt for every club to try and run some Girl Power sessions, for which we congratulate the patrons and the facilitators in these two constituencies.

This term is also for Term 2B games, which include volleyball, soccer, netball and athletics. Many of our girls are defending champions,and therefore it was obvious that the sessions were going to be more focused on the local, provincial and regional tournaments during the term. We are proud to say that many of the Girl Power Clubs were represented in the games, and congratulate Bishop

Life Skill Sessions in Clubs

BUSIA SESSIONS FOR MAY AND JUNE

SCHOOLS	DATE	TOPIC	NUMBERS
Katakwa Secondary	25/3/2015 12/5/2015 19/5/2015 26/5/2015	Introduction to the club Welcome game Ground rules catch the ball Peer pressure	20 20 20 20
ACK Changara sec	24/3/2015 14/5/2015 28/5/2015 11/6/2015	Introduction Welcome game Ground rules catch the ball Peer pressure	20 20 20 20
Bishop Sulumeti sec	25/3/2015	Introduction to the club	20
Albert Ekirapa sec	25/3/2015 12/5/2015 19/5/2015 26/5/2015 4/6/2015	Introduction to the club Welcome game Ground rules catch the ball Peer pressure Menstruation	20 20 20 20 20
Aedomoru sec	25/3/2015 25/5/2015 2/6/2015	Introduction to the club Welcome game Ground rules catch the ball	20 20 20
Kolanya Prim	26/3/2015 21/5/2015 28/5/2015 11/6/2015	Introduction to the club Welcome game Ground rules catch the ball Peer pressure	20 20 20 20
ACK Akadoot Prim	24/3/2015 28/5/2015 11/6/2015	Introduction Communication Personal hygiene and menstruation	20 20 20
Aedomoru prim	25/3/2015 13/5/2015 20/5/2015 27/5/2015 4/6/2015 10/6/2015	Introduction to the club Welcome game Ground rules Peer pressure Menstruation Relationship	20 20 20 20 20 20
Katakwa prim	26/3/2015 21/5/2015	Introduction to the club Ground rules	20 20
Rwatama Prim	26/3/2015	Intoduction	20

NAIROBI SESSIONS FOR JUNE
SCHOOL	DATE	SESSION	NUMBERS
St Catherine	5/6/2015 16/6/2015 23/6/2015	HIV &AIDS Peer and Parental Pressure Communications, Active listening	17 14 9
Nazarene	3/6/2015 10/6/2015 17/6/2015 24/6/2015	Health talk on sanitation (Community day) Relationships Peer and Parental pressure Verbal Communication, Active listening	The whole school 27 33 31
Olympic Primary	5/6/2015 12/6/2015 19/6/2015 26/6/2015	HIV &AIDS Relationships and dating Patron said the girls are receiving their exam papers and counterchecking. No session. Verbal Communication, Active listening	34 38 0
Olympic Secondary	5/6/2015 12/6/2015 19/6/2015 26/6/2015	HIV &AIDS Relationship and Dating Peer and parental pressure Verbal communication, Active listening	31 27 24
Nairobi Day	3/6/2015 10/6/2015 17/6/2015 24/6/2015	Bodies Emotion &Sexuality Relationships Peer and Parental pressure Verbal Communication, Active listening	20 18 12 13
Huruma Girls	4/6/2015 18/6/2015	Reproductive health and HIV&AIDS Peer and parental pressure.	30 30
Karen C	4/6/2015 18/6/2015	HIV &AIDS Peer and Parental Pressure. Relationships	33 30
Karama Academy Primary	18/6/2015 12/6/2015 19/12/2015	Introduction of the girl power club. (Admin). Orientation of the girls in to the club. Setting ground rules and communication.	20 20 20

SIGOMRE WARD SESSIONS FOR MAY
SCHOOL	DATE	SESSION	NUMBERS
Ninga Primary	18/5/15 25/5/15	Early Marriages, Pregnancies, Abortions & STIs Bodies, Emotions & Hormonal Changes	35 35
St Ignatius Primary School	19/5/15	Sports, Menstruation and Hygiene
Oasis Junior Academy	12/5/15	Relationships & Peer/Parental Pressure	19
Asango Primary School	19/5/15	Early Marriages, Pregnancies, Abortions & STIs	30
St Patrick Ugana	21/5/15	Early Marriages, Pregnancies, Abortions & STIs	33
Madungu Secondary School	27/5/15	Early Marriage,Pregnancies, Abortions & STIs	16

SIGOMRE WARD SESSIONS FOR JUNE
SCHOOL	DATE	SESSION	NUMBERS
Asango Primary	2/6/15 26/6/15	Bodies, Emotions & Hormonal Changes Peer & Parental Pressure	25 13
Oasis Junior Academy	9/6/15 23/6/15	Bodies, Emotions & Hormonal Changes Real Beauty vis a vis Commercial Beauty	19 19
St Patrick Ugana Primary	22/6/15	Relationships & Peer/Parental Pressure	33
Ninga Primary School	27/6/15	Relationships & Peer/Parental Pressure	35
St Ignatius Primary School	24/6/15 25/6/15	Bodies, Emotions & Hormonal Changes Followup session on Sports & Hygiene	36 30
St Pauls Sigomre Secondary	5/6/15 26/6/15	Relationships: Love, Cheating, Obsession Real Beauty vis a vis Commercial Beauty	34 36
Got Osimbo Girls High Sch.	19/6/15 27/6/15	Early Marriage,Pregnancies, Abortions & STIs Relationships & Peer/Parental Pressure	20 20
Ywaya Primary School	26/6/15	Bodies, Emotions & Hormonal Changes	38

Nazarene School Talk

Nazarene School Learn About Hygiene
Nazarene held their community week on the 3^rd of June 2015, and Girl Power Clubs Africa was on hand to teach the who school on two topics:
- How to use a toilet safely
- Importance of washing hands

Playing basketball at Kibera Court

Kibera Space Changes Lives Through Sports
The tennis and basketball court sessions in Kibera are progressing on well when the weather allows. Although its a mixed crowd of boys and girls, life skills are taught together and separately. Recently, the girls there had a chance to be interviewed by a reporter from the Nation Newspaper, who will publish their story in the kid’s segment, the Young Nation. The interview was based on basketball. The children were very cooperative and they are looking forward to seeing their story and photos in the newspapers.

Interns Provide Good Support

Intern college graduates, Loise Ngeke and Everlyne Sigilai, continue to be of great assistance as they

Interns and Joy at a planning meeting

learn and develop their skills they have accomplished a great deal of work. With their help we have entered the entire base line survey questionnaire in sales force and our reports in Ushahidi are up to date.

They have grown more confident in facilitating sessions in schools and though we are behind by two sessions according to our calendar of activity, the sessions covered are very well facilitated and there is adequate preparation made. We are confident that we will catch up and complete the sessions as planned.

Reporting On Salesforce
All baseline surveys conducted in 2015 have been entered in Salesforce. The records of the girls whose parents did the community impact assessment interview have been updated. In Nairobi all sessions have been updated on Salesforce except the monthly Girl Power Sports Day activity.

Following discussions with Tesora of Women Win, and studying the software, we finally have found a way to edit data in Salesforce in particular adding missing data. This has enabled us to input data of girls who joined in late after registration had been done, and up dated their session attendance records.

Our Website (www.girlpowerclubs.com)

Our website sitting on the Ushahidi platform is being updated regularly and we are very pleased with the progress. We have all our records up to date from Nairobi. Siaya has had a bit of problem with their mobile phone as well as Safaricom connectivity in the rural area, which we have sorted out by changing the service provider to Orange and we expect to see their posts soon. The advantage of this site is that we are able to pin-point in a map exactly where each school is located and follow their activities!

Girl Power Africa Facebook Page

Our FaceBook page is getting more likes and becoming more interactive. We are working towards having consistent daily update on our page and getting more likes. This was shared with the Siaya team and we hope to see more of their updates.

All clubs in Nairobi have a FaceBook page and we are working towards having the clubs in Siaya and Busia having FaceBook pages too!

Baseline Survey Queries - things to improve on

Making entries in Salesforce has been a learning experience in the use of Salesforce as a reporting tool. We face several challenges some of which we leant to solve along the way. We noted a few things though in the baseline survey that need to be addressed

• Questions 3.5 and 3.6 need to be reviewed to get the correct data.
• In this question, most children do not consider the small thing they do like digging for pay or selling a hen they own to buy something as business. So they end up saying ‘NO’ to part ‘A’ and ‘YES’ to part ‘B’ of the question’3.5’ and ‘NO’ again to the last part ‘3.6’.

• Question 2.4 part ‘A’ needs to be reviewed
• Is the question enquiring whether the participant is already in a leadership position and thus a leader or whether or not they are in a leadership position they believe they can lead.
• The language used in the questionnaire is advanced for some primary children. We administered the questionnaire in all primary schools but this seems be a challenge.
• Missing dates of birth and age records. We counter checked from previous records and also called the patrons and most of these records were availed to us.
• Missing names in the system. Some of the girls that took the survey had not been registered. We registered them and then input their data in Sales Force.
• Differences in spelling of a name, similarity of names (in most cases the two names given) and others give one name. We had to counter check the records in sales force and what was on paper and change the one on paper to match the record in the system. 

In the next survey we need to ask the children to write all their three names so that it’s easy to differentiate them.

• On the front page of the questionnaire we need to have clear slots where the children indicate their name, school, class and age so that this information is not lost.

Girl Power Clubs Sports Days

Nairobi - The girl power sports day for the month of May was a success. The June Sports Day has been postponed since the venue we use has been booked for an activity by a different school on the same day. The girls are asking if we could have music on the sports day. Some girls are also requesting for swimming as a sport be included on this day. So far we have soccer, rugby, netball and volleyball.
Siaya - Girl Power Clubs will hold their first Sports Day on the 4th July 2015. Its expected to be a great success, and more than 200 girls will be participating actively in running the day as the teams compete in soccer, netball and volleyball.

Parent Guardian interview

The records of the girls whose parents had participated in the community impact assessment have all been updated.

Internet

The inconsistency of the internet is affecting our reporting process in Salesforce and PIWIGO. We should have a modem that we can use when there is no internet.

SESSION COVERAGE BY SITE TERM TWO

BUSIA

NAIROBI

SIAYA (to be included once data entry is resolved)