Life Skills Education For Adolescent Girls

a) Personal and Social Skills• Personal Hygiene• Fitness• Sports• Games• Exercises• Yoga• Meditation etc.

b) Leisure Time Use • Reading• Listening to music• Nature walks• Hobbies• Excursions• Planning Holidays

c) Effective Communication (oral and written) skills e.g.-

• Recitation• Debate• Well formed hand• Writing • Reading habits etc.

d) Problem Solving • collect relevant parts and analyze the same

for finding alternative solutions to day to day problems

e) Decision making• Taking timely decisions

f) Critical Thinking• Ability to analyze and evaluate objectively

g) Interpersonal Relationship • Relating-pleasantly to friends• family visitors• Guests• Public Functionaries and community at

large• Working and playing groups

h) Positive Self Concept• Ability to identify one’s own strengths

and weaknesses• Capitalizing on one’s strengths and

overcoming weakness

i) Creative Self-Expression• Writing • Music• Dance• Art• Craft especially through folk medium

j) Household Related Skills

• Household Tasks ( cooking, nutrition, balanced diet, natural foods, washing clothes, sweeping and cleaning, kitchen gardening, health and hygiene, thrift, house hold remedies and stitching )

• Domestic Maintenance/Technology Orientation – Minor electrical repairs (putting a fuse etc.), repair of water taps/hand pump, bicycle maintenance, greasing, putting a puncture etc, whitewashing, paining, maintenance of domestic appliances-stoves, cookers, agriculture process

Family Life Skills

Sex education, planned parenthood, responsible parenthood, AIDS/HIV/STD awareness, Drug abuse, dangers, menstrual management, handling stopping family violence-verbal, physical, awareness about child abuse, sexual harassment. Family as a living democracy, consciousness of rights and duties of all, just division of labour and resources, respecting the dignity of all women, men and children alike.

Life Saving Skills

Road safety, fire fighting, first aid (burns, injuries, snake bite, drowning, poisoning etc.). Home nursing, fighting, fighting natural hazards/calamities averting hazards of pesticides, refuse management disposal)

Post and Telegraph Operation

Money Order, registered mail, parcel, telegram and saving etc.

Rail-Bus Service

Booking, reading railway timetable, fares etc.

Banking Operation

Opening and operating an account, bank draft, drawing a loan, Savings and investments etc.

Health and Sanitation

Advocacy for immunization, preventing disease and epidemics, preventing contamination of water sources, purifying water, proper sanitation, drainage, refuse management etc..

Social Sensitivity

Empathy and care of poor, sick, aged, disadvantaged and handicapped, fighting social evils like untouchability, dowry, early marriage, corruption etc. Valuing women’s work and contribution, respecting the dignity of all men, women and children.

Environmental Sensitivity

Protection of environment-all spices, identification of pollution hazards/agents, conservation of resources, love and care of plants and animals, Averting hazards of pesticides, plastics, industrial effluents, poisonous emissions, prevention of disease infection, epidemics and fighting contamination of water sources-procuring clean drinking waster

Skills For Democracy

Classroom and School

• Skills for classroom democracy• skills to make school as a functioning democracy• Mock parliament• Voting• Election• Participation• Leadership• Ability to appreciate other people’s point of view• Respecting and accommodating diversities• Valuing freedom of expression• Valuing other cultures and religions

Legal Literacy

• Knowing constitutional rights and duties• Understanding functions of local self government municipalities• Legislatures and parliament• Human Rights• Rights of Child• Rights of Women (CEDAW)• Consumer education• Personal and Social Laws• Labour Laws

Laws related to crimes against womenPublic interest litigation

Work/Occupational Related Skills

• Valuing all work especially the work and contribution of women• Valuing all skills, especially women’s skills that are life nurturing and life sustaining• Dignity of labour• Work ethics- punctuality, honesty, hard work, diligence, time and space, management, working in groups and institutional loyalty etc.• Entrepreneurship