Subtopic: A Systemic Approach to Strengthen Mental Health & Psychosocial Support for Resilient Teachers and Learners in Africa

Join a webinar discussion to deliberate on systemic approaches and promising practices to strengthen Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) interventions for teachers in Africa in achieving learning outcomes.

Organized jointly with the UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa, the webinar will 1) present the key issues impacting teacher mental health and wellbeing 2) share national and regional interventions on MHPSS for teachers; and 3) identify strategies to create linkages with various stakeholders.

Date: Tuesday, August 22nd, 2023

Time: 15:00-17:00hrs (East Africa Time)

Click on the Zoom link to join the webinar:   https://unesco-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIofu-vqz8pGtHfzgWPHJ_pcE24epqKgsXl

Duration: 2 hours 

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Learners listening to a talk during the expo

Moomba Boarding Secondary School held a Health Expo, giving 150 learners from grades 8 to 12 the opportunity to access vital health information and services.

Sepiso Lisulo, FutureLife-Now! focal person, organized the Health Expo at the FutureLife-Now! pilot school. The event, that took place on Sunday, 18 September, focused on providing a range of health services to learners.

School principal Maxwell Nyirenda officially opened the Health Expo by informing the learners that this would give them a rare opportunity to obtain critical information to help them make safe and healthy decisions regarding their future. The event was tailored in such a way that learners were provided with and given access to integrated, comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services.

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Pride of place: Nashville High School. FutureLife-Now! Leadership Club members present their winning business plan

As part of the FutureLife-Now! programme, Nashville High School has implemented many initiatives to empower young people on issues around health, education and development. One particular initiative has been to use clubs to encourage and enable youth agency. The most successful of these is the FutureLife-Now! Leadership Club.

Club chairperson, Calton Nemutenzi, was inspired by FutureLife-Now! to use his “power within” to think of a way to implement his knowledge for the benefit of many. He and a group of fellow learners noticed that many farmers in their area were keeping rabbits for meat production. At the same time, these farmers were forced to spend a large amount of money on costly chemical fertilisers for their crops, which created financial challenges.

For Nemutenzi and his friends, a light went on – the rabbits could provide the perfect solution to the farmers’ problems – and so the rabbit urine fertilizer project was born.

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Three days of intensive interactions has significantly strengthened the linkages between Lesotho’s 10 FutureLife-Now! schools and their nearby health facilities.

FutureLife-Now! Country Manager, Rantsane Kuleile, said that the main purpose of the development of a referral system was to ensure leaners in all 10 schools were aware and able to access care in supportive, friendly health facilities.

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