Some tips to achieve good health include: 

1. Stay away from danger and unhealthy habits;
2. Have plenty of fresh air ie open widows;
3. Eating health small balanced meals;
4. Exercise regularly. Take a walk at least 3 times a week or go to the gym and do not rely on your car to move from place to place for short distances; and
5. Have adequate sleep, at least 7 to 8 hours a day. If it happens once in a while that you can not sleep as planned, do not worry, sit back and enjoy the rest or use that time productively. Good Health is your birth-right.

It is important to achieve and experience happiness. You can achieve this by doing the following:

1. Get involved in some philosophical or believers’ community such as religion. Its rewarding as this aallows you to come together with people with the same belief as yourself;
2. Do some community charity  work if you have time and help out such helping  the ambulance work force;
3. Have a hobby that that you desire whether it brings in money or not; and
4. Learn to like your job. However, if your job brings you misery, then leave it and follow your heart.

These facts of life also apply to the handicapped. Do not let anyone tell you that you can not do something. I know people who are blind, deaf and dumb who have achieved much more in life that would be expected and others who have became leaders and professionals including university professors, writers and artists. Rangarirai Mpindu, who could not walk unassisted, was a leader of disabled association who worked hard and pioneered new paradigms and ways of thinking among the disabled people in Zimbabwe. We also have in mind the famous Zimbabwean singer, Paul Matavire, who was blind. Therefore, get up, be happy and achieve!

A laptop and the Internet give you lots of information. A laptop and the Internet can help you to find many things like games, jobs and some other websites like google, yahoo and wikipedia.

I’m writing this is because I think we should ban books. Books are expensive to buy and to find. Laptops and internet live for many years. You only buy one laptop per year while you buy exercise books per month. Most of our parents have no money to buy many books. Laptops and the internet are expensive to buy but so are many books.

In some other countries, like Zimbabwe, most people don’t have laptops and internet at home or at school. The government of Zimbabwe should give the schools money to buy the laptops and internet.

l think we should keep on using laptops and internet at school and at home everyday and stop using books, pens and pencils.

Writen by Makagonashe Dube (Age 11, Year 6)
Hokowhitu school, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Other forms of abuse are breaking down barriers of privacy (as when young people are permitted to watch sexual intercourse or other adult sexual activities) and exposing a person to sexually stimulating information that is inappropriate for his or her age or level of understanding.

Since we are living in the world full of temptation where many people are committing crime, who can be child molesters or rapists? These can be strangers, acquaintances, domestic workers, parents or even headmasters. Anyone is capable of becoming a rapist or child molester. Therefore, youth should never trust anyone. Someone ones once said, “Love them all but don’t trust them all.”

There are various factors that contribute to child sexual abuse. These are poverty, war, drought and general economic hardships, lack of parental care and guidance, AIDS related deaths leading to child headed families and lack of information among children. There are also cultural factors, for instance, that having sexual intercourse with a virgin can cure aids, cultural ideals that present rigid gender stereotypes- men as sexually aggressive and women as submissive, the societal belief that men must be sexually experienced. Traditional practices such as chiramu and girl child pledging also fuel CSA.

CSA has very negative effects in life. The effects can be grouped in three categories which are physical, emotional and social trauma. CSA also leads to unwanted pregnancies, STI infections, low self esteem, suicide, delinquency, embarrassment or street kids.

Finally, in any relationship, the youth should be given the opportunity to express their thoughts and ideas, their fears and anxieties, share their difficulties and problems, discuss various options, weigh pros and cons of each possibility and learn and practice decision making and assertiveness skills before they face the real challenging situations CSA

Written by Kudzanai Kagweda (Form 3)
Madzivazvido Secondary, Gokwe North, Zimbabwe

Furthermore, he is very convenient and close to young women and girls. He looks so sexy; he has sweet tongue and natural beauty meaning to say he is very attractive.

Some four years ago he got tested and was found to be HIV positive. He almost had a nervous breakdown. he was totally shaken in disbelief and went mad spoiling others or spreading the diseases to others. Moreover he attracted women and girls of a desired age of 13-28 years. In addition he give them money since he has a career with gives him good standards of living to be more attractive. He also attracts women by giving them pills and other drugs. The danger is that he continues to look healthy.

Unfortunately young women and girls get into sexual activities especially unsafe sex in disregard to the fact that the spread of the disease still continues unabated. Girls and women indulge in sex with the same HIV positive person without knowing it. I remember the proverb: a stitch in time saves nine. About half the population of young women and girls in a locality are sometimes spoiled by only one person.

Written by Candy Zimuto (18 years)
Mashame secondary school, Gokwe North, Zimbabwe

In less than six months they started having sex.

Tsitsi 14 had just started her monthly period and they felt very safe from the danger if getting pregnant. Three months later tsitsi missed her periods. She became a bit worried about the matter.

One day at school break time she told Admire the news. Admire instantly refused the matter. Tsitsi reported the case to the headmaster who chased both of them from school.

Written by Blantina Chipatiso Zvirevo (16)
Mashame Secondary, Gokwe North, Zimbabwe

If you have sex with someone, some of the STDs have no signs at first, children often do not realise that they have an STI. Children, men and women should go to the clinic of they have sex with a oral sex.

Children, women and men often learn sex from television, radio and forms of communication. When they don’t talk about, they get wrong information and do wrong things that may risk them. You can only protect yourself from sex when you are abstaining, faithfull to one partner or condomising.

Written by Ekias Mavhenyangwa (15 years)
Mashame secondary school, Gokwe North, Zimbabwe

Now we are capable of learning about HIV/AIDS at school. Parents at home are always talking about it, saying “lets fight HIV and AIDS not people living with HIV or AIDS”.

We are certain that we can have hunger even though we have HIV positive.

Everywhere you go around our community the message is shouting very loud. The people are now rejoicing in the world of fighting against HIV/AIDS not people who are positive.

Written by Nqoniwe Rashirai (15 years)
Mashame Secondary School, Gokwe North, Zimbabwe

One day, she was left alone at home. Her uncle sesame came and raped her. When she tried to report the case to her grand parents, she was ill treated.

Mr Chinamasa, her grade six teacher observed that something was wrong with her and discussed with her up until she finally got that matter. The teacher reported the case to the headmaster, who took it to the police.

When Sesame was arrested Tatenda’s grand parents refused to live with her accusing her of bringing conflicts in the family. Then what shall she do now?

Written by Tendai Magande (13 years)
Mashame Secondary school, Gokwe North, Zimbabwe

I later realized that something could be done because this could create enemity and things could be worse between my mother’s family and the Moyo’s where my mother’s sister had once been married. She left her children who are Munoda and Zvamada.

To proceed they were going to live with their father’s relatives. There, they were treated badly since they wanted to take advantage because of both of my next of kin’s parents had divorced. Every morning, they went to fetch water at the river which was almost two and half kilometers away.

They went to school after they had finished their chores. This meant they were always late for school. This pained me a lot. I did not know why, may be they did know they had nowhere to go. Also they did not bought them even a single cloth to them.

They were told that if they wanted clothes, they should go and rise their parents since they always told them that their did not want to breath, they were lazy, that’s why they died.

When the village head heard that they were abused in that way, he warned their guardian that if those things happened next time he would get into trouble if they reported to the police.

Written by Theresa Katopa (17 years)
Mashame Secondary school, Gokwe North, Zimbabwe.