Welcome to the first blog post of cohort 4!
Today marks the end of our first week in the office, and it’s been one of ups
and downs; we have already experienced water shortages and power cuts, leaving
us to get creative with our time. Channeling our inner 11 year old, we have
embraced felt tips, bubble writing and posters once more! To begin
with we laid down the law by drawing up office rules, with the essential being
tea and biscuits every morning. After that we made calendars, malaria tablet
tables (we don’t need malaria slowing us down) and posters about our hopes,
fears and goals for our time with WOSAG. We have already had our
first hospital visit. Liz found herself there in the middle of the week with a
bacterial infection but is doing well now. It is all part of the joys of
working in an unfamiliar country as a UK volunteer.
Now down to serious business.
This cohort we have evaluated WOSAG’s past approaches to issues such as
domestic violence, sexual health and consent, and have had discussions in which
direction we would like to take our project. We recognise the last cohort began
to work with men instead of targeting solely women on domestic violence issues
and have decided this something worth progressing further. We came up with
visual ideas to help schools and women’s groups remember our sensitisations,
activities, and discussions on sexual health and consent, with the aim to leave
a lasting impression that remains even after we have left.
Friday was World Smile Day, so we decided to dedicate our first social
media posts as cohort 4 to it. We took a group photo showing what makes WOSAG
smile (gender equality and ending domestic violence!) and posted these on
Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. We also each wrote down what makes us smile as
individuals, and we’ve shared them here as a way to introduce the team. Here we all are!
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| One of our team leaders, Juliana |
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| Our other team leader, Dave |
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| Helen |
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