Girls' mentoring sessions are held throughout the year covering a multitude of topics. One topic was drug abuse and its effects, and to make it more interactive the girls were split into groups and were told to write their own play and then act out the skit on why youngsters resorted to taking drugs and how they could seek help if they were struggling with drugs.  

One group of girls created a skit based on how drug-addicted parents affect the lives of their children, and how easy it is for these children to find solace in the same addiction that had ruined their lives and their parents' lives in the first place. 

This video shows the skit, "Good afternoon everyone, I’m Marian, the group leader for Group 2. Today we are here to present a play based on drug abuse, the play is titled” Don't Do It”.

A drug is a medicine that you take for psychological effects on your body. So if you use me properly I will give you a great impact on your body, but if you misuse me or abuse me you will see the bad effect of it. Now you are going to see an example of that.

Mom and Dad are drug addicts. Mom gets angry if she does not get money for her drugs and scolds her daughter, “How can you say you don’t have money? Since you were a child I have taken care of you, now you are grown-up and you are saying you don’t have money for me?”

Hurt by her mother’s words, the child starts using drugs.
This is my effect if you abuse me, I make sure that you don’t think properly or act in a normal form.

So we say “No to drug abuse”

The skits helped the girls think about the causes and effects of drugs and the need for prevention. It also got them thinking about solutions, and how and where they could seek help if they needed help or knew someone who needed help to stop using drugs.

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