Fifty Six 4th and 5th grade girls and boys attended a Kasiisi Project/Kibale Forest Schools’ Program Health Peer-Education workshop at Makerere University Biological Field Station to learn to be health resources for their fellow students. Based on previous data we know that only 2 trained Peer-Educators in a school of 800 students can significantly (p=0.01) increase health knowledge in their peers by 20% within 12 months.
Joined by the Senior Woman and Men Teachers from each of the 14 schools and Kasiisi Project/Kibale Forest Schools’ Program health staff, the students learned the basics of hygiene, malaria prevention and nutrition.

Increased food production – spreading ash on Permagardens
Students also acquired in depth knowledge of sexual health to equip them to be sources of accurate information and providers of support to their peers.