"You should be the agents of change." ~Presenter from WATSON

I have constantly been impressed by the amount of student leadership that I've seen at Gulu High School. On Thursday we went to the "Hand Over" ceremony, which was a swearing in of the new head prefects, head boy and head girl, and the dorm captains. Students also run the weekly assemblies with huge success.

On Friday the school had a presentation from the clean Water and Sanitation Department, but it was attended primarily by students, to my surprise, instead of teachers. At the end of the presentation, it was the students who were asked to develop a School Health Action Plan.

The presenter went on to give the students the charge to be the agents of change at their school and in their villages. He spoke to them about the responsibility that this knowledge now gives them. At the end he said, "You need to be very skillful when telling people." And I love this because it reminds them that people need to hear this information, but in a loving and non-threatening way so that they will adopt the simple changes that will lead to better health and sanitation.

This type of responsibility, ownership, and leadership I believe leads to empowerment; the theme of our trip :) I'm looking forward to bringing some of these ideas about student leadership back to my high school this fall.

Students are ready for it!!