Community Leaders in Kigezi sub region have appealed to Parents to put emphasis on good and proper parenting of their children as a way of instilling good morals and values in them in order to enable them to overcome Sexual Reproductive Health Rights related problems in future. 

This appeal was made by various speakers today at White Horse Inn Hotel on Makanga Hill in Kabale Municipality during the one day workshop of Local Sustainable Communities Organizations, (LOSCO) under their theme Advocacy Through Addressing Socio-caltural or Religious Barriers in Advancement of Sexual Reproductive Health Rights, (SRHR) in Kigezi sub region.

The workshop’s Key note Speaker Dr. Benjamin Mayanja, a retired Medical officer Highway clinic Kabale warned parents against packing condoms for their children when they are going back to school because it’s an indirect indicator that parents support their  to children to engage in early sexual immoralities regardless of their little or no knowledge about Sexual Reproductive Health Rights.

According to the Kabale district Probation officer Monica Muhumuza told Parents that they must emphasize good relationships with their children. She added that children should be free enough to express and share with them their day to day challenges and experiences they encounter in various environments they go to because this will help them to narrow down the parenting gap between Parents and their children. 

Also in the day’s session attendance was the Kabale District Health Officer Dr. Gilbert Mateeka who said that most people in our communities always see health as a solution to community challenges for example teenage pregnancies, unsafe abortion and unplanned pregnancies due to limited knowledge concerning sexual health rights. He clearly explained that it’s only through good parenting that parents can overcome sexual behaviours and their associated risks. 

Dr. Mateeka further stated that parents must focus on the interplay of legal or illegal, right or wrong and safe or unsafe among the law enforcers, religious leaders and health workers because it’s a master key in working with all the community stake holders to overcome sexual reproductive health rights in the region. 

The workshop also attracted attention from other members of the public who included the Kigezi regional police commander Assistant Commissioner of Police Ibrahim Saiga, Ms. Florence Tumuhirwe the Executive Director of Kabale Women’s Innovation Development, Sheikh Abdul Hasid Ssekalema, a member of the  Muslim Supreme Council. and many other dignitaries