LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION TOOLKIT FOR ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN INDIA• 19
Review
After each presentation, discuss why some abuse takes place. Tell them that some abuse is
socially accepted but is still abuse, such as an older person beating a young child, a husband
beating his wife. Introduce the idea that your body is your own, and no one else has a right to
abuse it.Linking Learning With Life
Depending on the type of abuse, children can plan to bring awareness among other children or in
the community. They can hold a rally or have an exhibition or conduct a street play. The children
who talk about sexual abuse should be referred to a project mental health specialist or a
counselor for in-depth counseling.Experience from the field
Boys and girls mentioned sexual abuse for the first time in this session, and the facilitator who had
worked with the children for so long had not known about it! (CCDT, Mumbai)Tips for the facilitator- This activity may need to be conducted with a homogenous group and with children who have
had common experiences with abuse. This activity can be divided into two different sessions with
sexual abuse being a separate session. Some organizations had no problem handling it with
mixed groups or in the same session. - Children must be of more or less the same age and preferably all of them older.