Lifeskill,Sexuality Education for 1000 girls-India

Centre for Women’s Development and Research

Life Skill and Sexuality Education for 1000 girls-India (14480)

Update-February 2015

With lots of hope and confidence we started this year 2015, during Christmas season we were busy with our fund raising activities and this was a rich learning experience for us.  In addition to providing life skill and sexuality education to adolescent girls this period the more focus was on providing supplementary education support because the board examination examinations are nearing for the 10^th and 12^th standard students.   One of the important thing happening among poor parents particularly mothers is the importance they give for their daughters education, earlier of course now also their major concern is daughters marriage.  Now they wish their daughters should get education and go for a better job.

LifeSkill and Sexuality Education: We have been continuing our lifeskill and sexuality education for girls.  We have organized 12 weekend workshops and more than 160 girls participated in these workshops.  With media highlight on sexual abuse and rape of girls mothers and girls are worried and now mothers want their girls understand sex and sexuality so that they can protect themselves.  We have also organized 2 workshops in the high schools and nearly 180 high school girls and 90 boys benefitted from these programmes.

Life skill Sexuality Education Workshop

G2G-Girls to Graduates programme:  Since the board examinations were announced for 10^th and 12^th standard students become busy to prepare for the March final examinations.  We have started focusing on supplementary education programme.  We have organized 2 one day trainings on “Study Smart-Learning Potentials” to build the confidence of the girls to face the final examination and ways of systematically plan and approach the examinations 64 girls from 10^th and 12^th standard classes attended this programme.  We are also organizing weekend (Sunday) 2 hours tuition classes in Maths, Science and English subjects for 10^th and 12^th standard girl students.  These classes are organized the schools itself, mostly by the school teachers themselves.  We paid small incentives to the teachers.  Few volunteers have also jointed to provide tuition to the girl studnets.  128 girl students benefitted from this programme.  We are continuing this programme till the examinations that is up to March end.  We have also distributed Rs.1000 to 75 girl students as an incentive for them to continue their education.  Most of these girls are daughters of single women(Widows, Destitute and deserted women)

Supplementary Education Class

Computer skill and other recreational activities:  We are continuing our computer skill training programme and during this period 28 girls benefitted from this programme. Ms. Sylvia an Italian student volunteer  is doing her internship with our organization, she teaches drums and Clarinet to slum girls, 9 girls are learning it but more girls are participating in the classes to listen the music.  Ms.Sylvia also teaches spoken English class of course with Italian accent she also organizes games for girl children.

Study Smart Workshop

Since it is Christmas season and fundraising period for us we were involved in several activities sending greetings and appeals to people, also visited colleges to involve students in raising funds for us.  Anna university from Chennai as part of their Kurukshetra festival raised funds for us, they have raised Rs.25,000 for us.   We are very happy about that, more than money these fund raising activities helped us to reach more people educate them about poor people, particularly about women and girls in our country, We could also able to share our experiences with  thousands of people.