Life Skills Education session on adolescence

The Future Smiles project at Mumbai Smiles was designed with the motto of ‘Educating Disadvantaged Youth in Mumbai and has envisioned mentoring and providing scholarships to needy and ambitious youth in the age group of 13 – 22 years from underprivileged background. It provides individual mentoring, group learning, exposure to various successful institutions and personalities and thereby a holistic development along with the social empowerment of student beneficiaries. This project also promotes Life Skills empowerment for adolescent girls in the age group of 6 – 13 years from the underprivileged families.

A Life Skills Education Session was organized for our beneficiaries on 23rd March, 2015 at Adarsh Vidyalaya. The objective of the session was to educate the girls about various changes they face while growing up and to educate them about their health issues – menstrual cycle and the care one needs to take during this period

The girls were informed about functions of various body parts – how one part compliments other and its relative importance. They were told about the changes that take place in one’s body during adolescence and how to handle the same. The speaker started with describing the human body, post which she discussed the changes that the body undergoes during adolescence. The speaker then spoke about menstrual cycle and the care and hygiene that one needs to maintain during those days.

She also spoke on nutritional elements that the girls need to intake in order to remain healthy. She informed the girls that in order to have good health, their diet should include tricolor nutrients –orange depicting pulses , white depicting milk products and cereals , depicting vegetables and fruits and finally blue depicting water.

The girls were happy to attend as only few of them get such information at home from their parents. Their doubts concerning adolescence and menstruation were clarified and they got the right information.