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For young people, access to reliable information about their sexual and reproductive development is both a need and a right. Classroom-based education is important but insufficient. It is within this framework of the implementation of the SRHR project in Muramvya Province that Service Yezu Mwiza in collaboration with the Health Districts and with the support of GIZ/Health organized, from 16 to 20 March 2020, awareness sessions through inter-school competitions on ASRH in schools around health centre in Muramvya Province.

The inter-school competition gathered more than 57 schools around the 9 health Centre (RWEZA, KANIGA, MARUMANE, TEZA, MURAMVYA, RUGARI, MUNYINYA, KIVOGA and BUGARAMA) and each school was represented by 10 students in that competition.
Awareness sessions focused on knowledge of sexual development among young people, prevention of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), unwanted pregnancies in schools and sexual and gender-based violence (GBV). The main objective is to deliver educational messages to large numbers of students through sketches and drawings on SRH but also to strengthen the capacity of young people on SRH education provided by school facilitators.

At the end of the competition on each health Centre, all participating students got a notebook and a pen except the school, which was first in addition to the notebook and pen for each of its participants, got a brand new soccer ball as a prize.
“We are pleased that our school was the first at the Teza CDS level, this shows that the facilitator at our school level has done a lot of work in providing necessary information about the SSR to our young students. We just got the brand new football as a prize, which is a good thing because we needed it at our facility. I would like to thank the SYM who organized these competitions and I would also like to reassure the students who did not win this prize that the ball will be useful for all of us as long as there is an interschool competition that is approaching. This means that students will play this ball together. The messages given through these entertainments will help these young people to behave responsibly and ensure that we no longer have pregnancy cases on our school” Mr. Désiré, Director ECOFO Busekera.
"Through our drawings and sketches, other students have seen that not listening to their parents and school facilitators about SRH leads to unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases and even expulsion from school, which puts the student on the street and consequently sees his future as uncertain because of his bad behavior. It would be really perfect if every year such a competition could be organized, it would help us, as young students, to remember that we have to take our destiny in our own hands and not get carried away by the pleasure of a few minutes," said one of the participants.

These awareness sessions have helped a large number of young students to become aware of the harmful consequences that can occur when a student refuses to listen advices of parents and those of school facilitators. If students practice the messages given through these interschool competitions, this will allow schools in Muramvya province to achieve the government’s policy of zero school pregnancy by 2030.