Sessions
Students Empowerment For Community Transformation at the iEARN Conference
Juliet Tracy Nansubuga
Gayaza High School
Juliet Tracy is an enthusiastic and experience teache, currently teaching at Gayaza High School, an all girls School in Uganda, East Africa. She is passionate about youth empowerment and development. Throughout her career, Juliet Tracy has engaged her learners in various project activities through different clubs. Such activities won...Read Full Bio
Juliet tracy Nansubuga
Juliet Tracy is an enthusiastic and experience teache, currently teaching at Gayaza High School, an all girls School in Uganda, East Africa. She is passionate about youth empowerment and development. Throughout her career, Juliet Tracy has engaged her learners in various project activities through different clubs. Such activities won her a scholarship in 2016 to participate in Pan-African Youth Leadership Program as a youth mentor from Uganda.
Since then, she has embarked on transformational voluntary community activities. She has designed, coordinated and implemented projects with young people both on national and international level. She is an advocate for change of the curriculum and pedagogy in her country, and facilitates capacity building sessions for in-service teachers around the country. It is that passion and experience that she is coming with in iEARN to share experience with the like-minds. Currently she is participating in Girl Rising and Civic Projects.
Type: Poster
Location: Poster Hall
Date: Monday-Friday
Time: Ongoing
This session is associated with a UN SDG!
This session relates to the CIVICS iEARN Project!
Session Description
Learn about the opportunities and skills for engaging high school students into community development projects or activities and the benefits or skills students acquire. The poster will share the project under Civics, where students carried out a Community Cancer Awareness and Screening exercise. View photographs of the pre-project activities like the participants training, their research about the topic, visits to the cancer ward in Mulago Hospital, interaction with the doctors, letters requesting for collaboration with the hospital, the activity and the results.
What will educators learn and be able to do at the end of the session?
- To unearth the potential that the youth have to transform their communities.
- To enable the young people realize that they do not have to wait until they are 40years to bring change in our communities.
- To Emphasize the power of collaboration for example in organizing the Community cancer Awareness project and screening none of us was a medical practitioner but we contacted and teamed up with staff from our referral hospital, Mulago.