{"id":1188,"date":"2021-08-18T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gtu.gm\/web\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2022-07-14T12:18:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T12:18:46","slug":"gtu-trains-young-female-teachers-on-srgbv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gtu.gm\/web\/gtu-trains-young-female-teachers-on-srgbv\/","title":{"rendered":"GTU TRAINS YOUNG FEMALE TEACHERS ON SRGBV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">The Gambia Teachers\u2019 Union has gathered close to Fifty young female teachers serving in rural Gambia on a day training workshop on School Related Gender Based Violence. The training comes on the wake of increasing reports of GBVs in schools and regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">The training funded by the Steve Sinnott Foundation is expected to equip the participants with the required knowledge to fight against SRGBV and to be ambassadors in the fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">It is reported that a higher percentage of the victims of SRGBV are female teachers. Therefore, the training the union believes, will empower the young female teachers to be able to stand up against SRGBV and to coach students to understand what SRGBV are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gtu.gm\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_2084-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gtu.gm\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_2084-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.gtu.gm\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_2084-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gtu.gm\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_2084-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gtu.gm\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_2084-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.gtu.gm\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_2084-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Madam Phebian Ina Grant-Sagnia<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">Madam Phebian Ina Grant-Sagnia(Msc. Nursing, Msc. Reproductive Health) has told participants at the SRGBV training organized by GTU that, without sexuality, there can be no reproduction or reproductive health. Mrs. Grant-Sagnia made this proposition during a presentation on Sexual and Reproductive Health at a training for young female teachers from schools in rural Gambia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">According to Madam Sagnia, the ICPD programme of Action stated that &#8220;reproductive health implies that people are able to have a satisfying and safe sex life and that they have the capacity to reproduce and the freedom to decide if, when, and how often to do so.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">During her marathon presentation, Madam Sagnia took participants through various thematic areas on Reproductive health including the reproductive cycle, STD\/HIV\/AIDS, FGMC amongst others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">She encouraged the participants to filter down the knowledge gained to their peers as well as students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gambia Teachers\u2019 Union has gathered close to Fifty young female teachers serving in rural Gambia on a day training workshop on School Related Gender Based Violence. The training comes on the wake of increasing reports of GBVs in schools and regions. The training funded by the Steve Sinnott Foundation is expected to equip the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gtu.gm\/web\/gtu-trains-young-female-teachers-on-srgbv\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GTU TRAINS YOUNG FEMALE TEACHERS ON SRGBV<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gtu.gm\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gtu.gm\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gtu.gm\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gtu.gm\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gtu.gm\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gtu.gm\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/www.gtu.gm\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gtu.gm\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gtu.gm\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gtu.gm\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gtu.gm\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}