Joel Atwood
ED2, Gakenke District, Northern Province
Last year I had the pleasure of participating in Camp BE. A
camp for boys that basically takes the same concepts used to promote gender
equality and educates the boys. The interesting thing about this is that the
focus on the camp becomes less about girls being empower and more about how
boys empower girls.
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| BE Camp in Northern Province, 2011 |
The camp ran fairly smoothly and was a really positive
experience for the boys. I think they really learned a lot. We did many of the
same activities and lessons using them from the girls camp but tweaked them so
that they where relevant for boys. We also had a lot of interesting discussions
about how to promote girls and how to support girls in the spirit of equality.
Some problems that we did run into was issues with money.
Some students lied about how much it took for them to come to the camp and/or
claimed they took or did take very expensive personal transportation when they
where suppose to take cheaper forms of transport (ie: buses). This was a
problem we dealt with on a case by case basis. However most of the boy's if not
all of them wanted more money then we had planned to give them. A solution to
this problem would be a predefined about of money that a student would get and
would sign for so when they asked for more money at the end we could go back to
this form.
Overall it was a good experience and I hope to improve on what we learned for the next camp.
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| PCVs and HCN Facilitators for GLOW/BE Camp in Northern Province |
Photos by Genevieve Williams, ED2, Musanze District, Northern Province
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