WORKSHOP 6
Date: October 2017

Theme: “Reproductive Health”

Participants: 500 +/- girls

Age: 12-19 years

Teachers: 5

Objectives:

• To sensitize the girls about the need for reproductive health
• Share knowledge and understanding on this topic
• Identify what healthy personal hygiene is and ways to maintain it
• Teach the younger girls about the physical changes that happen in puberty
• Encourage the older girls and teachers to share their experiences on these crucial issues
• Bring this important topic out into the open to create regular easy and knowledgeable discussions between peers

Key Issues Discussed:

• Puberty
• Periods
• Personal hygiene
• Sexually transmitted diseases
• Clothes and sexuality
• Body responsibility – your own and other peoples

Challenges:

• Many girls with too many different needs to adequately address them all
• Limited resources
• How to involve more teachers and parents
• How and when to set up regular sessions for both the girls and the parents and teachers, in smaller group on this topic