28 • MODULE FIVE: DECISION-MAKING
Linking Learning With Life
Ask the children if they would like to share any of their problems and if they would like their friends
to find options for possible solutions. Ask the children to meet one friend who is living with an HIV
person, or is sick with some other ailment or someone who is sad and find out what is bothering
them. The information is brought back to the group, and if some of the problems are common, an
action plan can be devised. If problems are unique to the person, another strategy may be
planned. It is important that the children discuss the strategy and options with an adult, preferably
a project counselor, before discussing with other children and community members.Experience from the field
Children worked on real life issues. A child narrated the real life incident of his HIV+ mother and the
problems they had to face.
Another child narrated the experience of discrimination when after the death of her HIV+ mother nobody
came to their house for functions or to eat in their place. (SEEDS, Guntur).