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3.64 EMBRACING PARTICIPATION IN DEVELOPMENT: Wisdom from the Field On the last day in Chawama, after we had wound-up the field work, the facilitators met at the clinic to discuss the results. While we were busy with our discussions a large group of 10-13 year old schoolgirls turned up at the clinic and said that they wanted to continue the discussions with us. Not wanting to hurt them by asking them to go away, we gave them a sheet of A-4 size paper each and asked them to sketch a day in their lives. They were all asked sit separately and to draw their own routines. In disbelief we looked at the filled-up sheets. Only one of the 36 girls who took part in the exercise had drawn her daily routine, like sweeping, helping her mother prepare breakfast, going to school, playing with friends, etc. All the rest, 35 of them, had written a story, which ran something like this: "When I was washing dishes outside my home a girl approached me and said that there is a boy interested to be friends with you." The girl and boy are introduced. The boy says he wants to be her friend. The girl agrees. They decide to meet again. The boy gives small gifts or money. After two or three meetings the boy suggests having sex. The girl refuses. The boy tries again. The girl refuses. He persists. The girl refuses. End of story. Part 3 We asked two or three of them, separately, to tell us what happened afterwards. The girls did not say anything. We asked if they would like to draw what happened next. They refused. We did not persist. It is possible that all these girls drew a girl-boy relationship sequence, instead of a simple daily routine, because of the influence of the discussions that we had on the subject with them earlier. However, we had not asked them to prepare a picture story earlier. Even then, getting nearly the same story and sequence of events from 35 out of 36 girls was a mind-blowing experience for us. We were stunned for quite some time. From the field notes of Meera Kaul Shah, Chawama Compound, Lusaka, Zambia.
EMBRACING PARTICIPATION IN DEVELOPMENT: Wisdom from the Field 3.65 Following is a copy of one of the picture stories prepared by a group of boys from the M’tendere Compound. MARY AND JOHN: A PICTURE STORY Prepared by a group of grade seven schoolboys, M'tendere Compound, Lusaka (Copied from the original. The original was drawn on large sheets of paper) Part 3
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