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The Teacher

(compared with soap and water) students recover by delivering an psychosocial support were
irregular syllabus. enormous.
We therefore strongly feel that
providing young children with Using our membership network Recognizing that schools are both
access to water less hand sanitizers as leverage, Kewota is prepared a place for learning and a place
in primary schools and ECDs will to partner with the Ministry of for children to overcome the
substantially lower the risk of Education to promote school based psychosocial stress of emergencies,
infections and thereby protect our psychosocial support to our teachers Kewota plans to mobilize a
teachers. According to UNICEF assessments, partnership-based platform to
many children and teachers support training for teachers and
Furthermore, use of thermometer- continued to suffer symptoms of principals to help them recognize
based screening coupled with psychosocial stress, with symptoms signs of distress or impaired daily
teacher training on the management including withdrawal, anxiousness, functioning among their students.
of suspected cases may allow fear, denial and depression.
teachers to detect fever in children Benta Opande is the CEO, KEWOTA
upon school entry and exclude ill The UNICEF findings indicate
children from entry. that there was a serious need to
develop the capacity of teachers
These measures in our view will go and school staff to better support
a long way in ensuring the safety of the psychosocial wellbeing of the
teachers who are exposed to the children suffering from trauma and Using our membership network
unvaccinated age group of pupils. to deal constructively with problem as leverage, Kewota is prepared
Additionally, teachers who are behaviors arising from it. In addition, to partner with the Ministry of
increasingly facing the daunting task children were in need of services to Education to promote school
of supporting students in covering help them overcome challenges and based psychosocial support
lost ground require new skills and stress related to living in poverty to our teachers According to
capacities. They are operating in a With schools consolidated UNICEF assessments
modified environment, ensuring and reorganized the needs for

EdSource Quarterly | Oct-Dec l 2021