Develop Life Skills Through Sport for 300 children

We have two new communities that join the program. One community lives near the sea, most of the adults works as fisherman and another community lives under highway bridge in North Jakarta. In total iwe have 11 communities and reached 571 children through the sports program. The composition of participants are 20% girls and 80% boys, with 51% of them are between 12-14 years old, 27% between 15-17 years old, 11% between 9-11 years old, 8% more than 17 years old, and 3% less than 9 years old.

In this period, we deliver our new module ‘Stop Bullying’ to the community. The 'Stop Bullying' module contains 11 life skills materials that are useful for the participants to prevent and stop bullying behavior. The life skills messages in the module delivered by the coaches were including; understanding bullying, self-regulation, optimizing self-strengths, understanding others, critical thinking, courage to speak up, a positive gesture, self-resilience, dismantling stereotypes, positive communication, and building positive friendships. This module designed as a response to children's friendship situation. They admitted that bullying is an issue in their friendship.

After 6 months implementation we conduct the assessment to measure the impact of the module. The findings are:

• Participants' understanding of the bullying (20% increase)
• Participants' understanding of the difference between teasing and bullying (38% increase)
• Participants' belief that bullying can be prevented (29% increase)
• Participants' belief that children can be 'anti-bullying' agents of change (15% increase)
• Participants' attitudes when facing bullying: remain silent (16% decrease) and no longer silent (14.5% increase)
• Participants report the bullying (as a victim or witness) to the people they trust (13% increase).
• Participants made immediate efforts to stop the bullying, as a victim or witness (5% increase).
• Participants made efforts to defense themselves from the bullying they experienced (19% increase).
• Participants did not do anything (to apologize or self-correction) when they became a bully (13.1% decrease).

In general, respondents' assessment of understanding and belief increasing, as well as changes in behavior regarding bullying, was 8 (scale 1–10). This was validated by the suitability of respondents' answers to the survey, which reached an average of 80% in the aspects of understanding and belief, as well as behavior change. The promotion of healthy friendship will be continues in our next session.

This is how we use sport to increase children life skills. For underpriviledge children in Indonesia, there are less opportunity to get this kind of education. As we all know that children's world are playing, so we can help them to learn about life through play. Thank you so much for your support! We hope there will be more supporters for children! Be a Buddy, not a bully