NUSRA (BY KIRAN)



When I met the students at Nusra I thought they are shy and will be unlikely to participate actively when I'm going to teach them but it's a cultural shock for me that the students at Nusra technical training institute asked us (my work placement counterpart Sarmad) quesions in our very forst lecture about culture focusing on Pakistan and Kenya. We asked them what they want to know about Pakistan adn we were bombarded by so many questions mqaking us continue our lecture the following day. They asked us about provinces, independeces day, colours of the Pakistani flags, governance in Pakistan, political adnd transport systems, about terrorism, population, illegal businesses in Pakistan, wedding ceremonies, Pakistan and Indian economy and government etc. I enjoyed repling to their challenging questions.
NUSRA was established in februaury 2005 by the Malindi Eduaction Develiopment Assosiation (MEDA). The main aim of the institute is to rescue the youth of cuommunity from the bad traits of the streets by providing them with technical training skills. My counterpart, Sarmad and I have been teaching students about Pakistan, interview techniques adn tips, C.V. making, stress management, healthy living, sales adn marketing, communication, urdu adn reproductive health so far.
As the school will be closing for the summer holiday period we have devised a whole months programme for August. We are going to train two students about glass about painting as aprt of life skills education. They will be selected through proper procedure. We are going to publisize NUSRA by conducting orientations in different schools, our target audience are teachers and students. We are going to paint busy street walls and we are going to distribute flyers to shops. Apart from that we are going to conduct awareness raising sessions within the communities that will be arranged by students. Moreover, we are going to paint a wall in clothing department and will plant a tree as well. We have also planned to paint GX logo on one of the walls at NUSRA.