 Good morning. Good morning and welcome back to Y254 in the morning. This is WCW. Just in case you joining us, engage us on all our social media platforms at Y254 channel. Engage me at faith and solely. And so, yesterday was World Teacher's Day and teachers go through a lot in school. They take up the roles of being a parent and at the same time be a teacher. And so, they say that for you to be a teacher, you have, it has to be a calling. And speaking of being a calling, teachers come in all forms. And today in the studio, we have a guest who is a teacher. At the same time, she is a model and running an organization to sensitize teenagers on teenage pregnancies. Her name is Belinda Nabire. Welcome to the studios this morning. Thank you. Okay. So, you are a teacher. And as I just said earlier on, that being a teacher is a calling. Is it a calling to you now that you are a model and a teacher or is it that they are grades that put you in a position of being a teacher? Not really. I am saying it is a calling. Because at the end of the day, as I teach, I have to make sure that I am part of a child's life and for me to impact the child's life, it also means I am impacting the society. So to me, it is a calling. It's a calling. So, what's your take? Let me start by asking, what's your take on CBC curriculum? I believe CBC is a very good curriculum because we are focusing on the parents alone. But we are focusing on them, on the student, on our children in all round. Because we have students who are gifted and also those ones who are gifted in terms of sports, in terms of drama, etc. And for CBC, it is focusing on all these things. So to me, it is a very good curriculum. Wow. So maybe I just went so fast ahead because I was just so concerned about your take on CBC. But now tell us, who is Belinda? And other than being a teacher, what else does Belinda do? Belinda Nabila is my name, as you just said. I am a teacher of French Angiography, a high school teacher, and also a model. And as a model during my ring, as a ring queen of the year 2020, I am focusing on creating awareness on teen pregnancy. Then, apart from that, from my heart, I am also an advocate of breast cancer awareness. How did it come that you are a teacher and a model at the same time? Right from when I was growing up, I would fancy how I would see the models and also pageants. The girls would be dressed and everything. So after I finished my campus, I said why not give it a try. That's why I am here today. Wow. So it's something that you grew looking up to, being a model. Okay, all right. So what does it take to be a model? Just like any other profession, it is also a profession. And as a model, you are not just supposed to be looking glamorous for the cameras or being dressed up and everything. For models, our main aim is to impact the society, is to give back to the society, because it is from this society that you come from. So we are also supposed to give it back. So as a model, you are supposed to be passionate, you're supposed to be compassionate, and you are supposed to be willing to give back to the society and help people regardless of even if it will come back to you or it won't come back to you. So it is being a leader offering service to the society. So what prizes? Because I believe that there is always a prize for a winner. So what prize comes with being rain queen of the year? Okay, so with the rain queen of the year, the prize is that you have a platform to be able to speak out, to be able to speak out, to also voice to most people who cannot speak out. And for me as a rain queen of the year, I'm able to speak for teenagers and specifically on teen pregnancy issues. And as you're aware at the moment, in our Kenyan history, we are recording high rates of teen pregnancy. So it is what I'm really advocating for as the rain queen of the year. But also other models and other agents, they also have their own things that they speak towards to or order. So speaking of teenage pregnancies, speaking of teenage pregnancies, you find that most girls out there, teenage girls, they are going out of their way, not necessarily knowing the rigors of being a teen mom. They are like exchanging sex for pads because of poverty. There's so much poverty from where they come from to an extent that a boy buys you pads and then you exchange pads for sex. What are you doing in your capacity to eradicate such? First of all, I believe that this matter is not just a matter of one person, but it is us as a society, we as Kenyans, we are supposed to join in hands and speak about this matter because some of these teens, when you speak to them, they will tell you they went to their parents, but their mom told them, shall we think about eating or we shall think about food. And for the mother, she's thinking of the bigger picture, I have a family to feed. If I take these 50 shillings to buy the pads, then it will mean today all my household is going to sleep hungry. So I believe that the same way that the government has put condoms in institutions, it should also be the same thing with sanitary towels. We should have the sanitary towels at the disposal of every woman, not just teenagers, every woman. If in case you left the house and did not have a sanitary towel and you reach in town and your methods have commenced, if you go to a washroom, you'll be able to access the sanitary towels. Wow. So before we continue, just remind our viewers where I can find you on social media. On social media, I have a best cancer awareness page on Instagram called the Pink Power of Hope, and also my Instagram handle is Belly and Edison. On Facebook, you'll find me as Belly Belly. Wow. So speaking of condoms being all over, like you go in the washrooms and you find condoms are there, but you don't find pads there. We live in a patriarchal society where you find that a girl gets pregnant. She drops out of school for some time during the pregnancy, but the boy continues to go to school. So you're talking to girls, teenage girls, so who is talking to these boys who, for a pregnancy to be there, there has to be a boy, there has to be a girl. Do you think that we are just moping the flow while their tap is still running? I believe that when we are talking, as we talk right now, sorry, we also try to include the boys. Because for the boys, we tell them, even if you make the girl pregnant, yes, you can work free. But remember we also have HIV, we have STIs and STDs. So it is just a conversation that should incorporate both the boys and the girls, and not just girls alone. And as we hold our conversations, that is what we focus on. Because if we promote the girls, we leave out the boys. Then in future, we will have a problem. We will have women and we won't have men. So it is a conversation that should bring everybody on board. So there is a time that the government wanted to introduce sex education in our schools, because you find that we were having a conversation last week, and there is a panelist who was telling us that the youngest mother in Kenya is nine years old. So there is a time they wanted to introduce sex education in school. But you find that, because you find that in most cases, these girls and boys, they are abused, but they just don't have the language to come and tell you, mommy, this is what happened to me. She has been abused, but she doesn't have this language that she'll use to tell you that someone touched me inappropriately. Do you think that it is the right time for sex education to be introduced in our schools? I think it's not the right time. We should already be doing it. Because we have children as young as nine years old who are already engaged in sexual activities. We have kids who also have access to the Internet and all these content is in the Internet. So if we don't take up the responsibility to talk to them, they will go ahead and find it on the Internet. So if we are not doing it, let us all do it, because we are in a society that our teenagers are already engaged in sexual activities. As a teacher, do you have this segment in your school where you set aside guiding and counselling to teenagers in school, where you teach? Of course, we do it. Because after the COVID period, our teenagers were exposed to a lot of things. If we just go back to teaching as in the past, then we won't be getting what is intended of us. The whole of last year, our teenagers were exposed to a lot of psychological trauma, social trauma, etc. So from teaching, we are also supposed to be molding these kids socially so that they can also be able to have relationships amongst themselves, the society and even the environment quite well. Speaking of modeling the children or rather the students, when COVID hit, you realize that that is the time when teenage pregnancies hit high. And most people were saying that schools should open, children should go back to school. Does it mean that parents have left their responsibilities to teachers in totality? I believe, I really can't say that our parents have left their responsibility to the teachers all through course also. These teachers, they are also parents to these students. We say that parents have left their responsibility to teachers to be alive. So I believe that it's just a matter of change. And also, we as the society, we don't get to understand our things properly. Because if you take for example, how in our days, teenagers used to be treated. It's not the same way that current teenagers would be treated. Because our issues were totally different from what the current teenagers are facing. So it is just a collective responsibility for us also to listen to the teenagers to get to understand them so that we can also have a lasting solution. Rather than blaming, it is parents, it is teachers, etc. So we just all get on board, listen to the teenagers and try to come up with a lasting solution to be able to help. So moving on, you're also dealing with victims and survivors of breast cancer. So I know that cancer is something that is so tormenting that one would never even want to go through such kind of experience. So when you talk to the survivors and victims of breast cancer, what are some of the experiences that you are giving to you? Okay, one of the experiences they say is that when we get this information to people early on, when people are informed of the issues on cancer, we'll be able to save a lot of lives. When we also change our lifestyles, our eating habits, that will also be able to reduce the number of cancer. So you give out bras to victims, survivors of breast cancer. So which type of bra? Because I believe that they are bras that are designed for someone who has had a mastectomy. So first of all, it is also for the patient themselves because they also know what is comfortable for them. So when we're issuing the bras, we leave it to the patients to be able to choose for themselves, which one they feel comfortable in and which one it's much preferred for them. So we don't go to choosing for them. So they will just come. We have the range of bras, so they select and the one that they feel fit for them. That's how you do about it. Wow. So you have an event coming up. Talk about it. So first, we are still in talks. It is a hockey tournament and we're looking forward to be able to create awareness on breast cancer and prostate cancer. So we'll either hold it late next month, November or early December because this month is breast cancer and next month is prostate cancer. So your parting shot? So my parting shot is I would just like to encourage everybody to be able to self examine themselves on breast cancer at least once a month because early detection serves life. Thank you. Wow. So it's been a good conversation. We thank you for coming and we wish to have you more on our show so that we can talk more of issues that are affecting us in our society. Here at WaytoFaifa, we celebrate you. Now, the world has got so many hurdles and whatever you're going through know that that is not the end. If you are a teenage mom out there, just remember that that is not the end of the world. Use whatever challenges that you are having as a ladder to greatness and parents go through so much that at times they might even forget to remind us of the basics that they have always been telling us. But even if they did and you didn't have self respect and value for yourself, it would just be like a wild goose chase. Thank you for watching. My name is Faith Nsoli. Kaisu is up next with Girl's Talk.