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| Group photo of the Participants of training on NFP |
The
Natural Family Planning (NFP) training has been hailed as ideal in teaching
couples and families to be faithful and also lowers the spread of diseases like
HIV/AIDS.
Speaking
during a graduation ceremony in Lodwar where early marriage and polygamy is
rampant, the Bishop of Lodwar Rt. Rev. Dominic Kimengich said that the training
enhances communication of joy, cheap compared to artificial methods, scientific
and easily reversible. “When couples learn natural family planning methods,
they become more connected to one another and also faithful, it also reduces
chances of acquiring sexually transmitted diseases.” He said.
Meanwhile,
addressing the graduates at JJ Mc Carthy Centre in Nairobi, the Kenya
Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) - National Family Life Coordinator Mrs.
Theresa Abuya urged those commissioned to impart the correct natural family
planning knowledge to couples to enable them space the births of children and
to encourage couples to accept each pregnancy and every child as a gift from
God, by promoting pro-life values.
At
the same time, KCCB General Secretary Very. Rev. Fr. Daniel Rono called on the
teachers not to depart from the doctrine of the Catholic Church as well as
authentic principles and guidelines as set out in approved literature by the
Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The
training of Natural Family Planning (NFP) began more than five years ago and
has so far seen more than 200 candidates being priests, sisters, couples and
family life coordinators from 23 dioceses graduate in training couples in NFP and
other family life education that promote moral values, love and principles in
families.
The
teachers who graduate commit themselves to encourage married couples to meet
their mutual responsibilities to each other and to their children through
education and counselling.
They
are also trained to be role models by foremost being users themselves and by
living and promoting the moral values, principles and to promote Natural family
planning in marriage for the enrichment of the couples and the benefit of every
child, thus promoting an atmosphere of love and security for the family.
Some
of the trained couples who are now teachers of NFP attended the workshop with
their children who are evidence of how the program works and gave testimonies
that they were even able to get children of the preferred gender using the
method.
By Rose Achiego, Waumini
Communications KCCB
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