Life Skills Education Toolkit

60 • PART TWO: FACILITATOR’S GUIDE

What’s next after the Life Skills

Education Program

The monitoring and evaluation of the program

will help raise key issues, lessons learned, successes

and failures. All of these will help point to changes

that may be required or for creating a model for

replication or celebrating the success achieved!

Children may want to begin an HIV Awareness

Club or youth group after the life skills sessions

are completed. Some ideas on how this may be

started are provided.

STARTING A CLUB

1. Find out if there are organizations involved
   in similar activities;


2. Call a meeting of interested peers;


3. Give a name to your group and prepare
   membership rules;


4. Elect an Executive or a Leadership
   Committee, which will have a Chairperson
   and Vice Chairperson, Secretary and Vice
   Secretary, Treasurer and Vice Treasurer,
   Publicity Manager and Vice Personnel
   Manager;


5. Have a number of sub-committees for
   drama, fundraising, contacting peers,
   materials development or distribution,
   games, and community programs;


6. Define roles and responsibilities; and


7. Find out if you can join a larger network.

Activities

1. Find out where peers gather—map the areas.


2. What are they interested in; what are their
   problems?
   3. Plan a program for peers.
   4. Have internal club activities for members—to
   increase knowledge, skills, for recreation. Fill
   any gaps in knowledge, practice and attitude.
   5. Plan inter-club activities.
   6. Plan community activities.
   7. Monitor activities and evaluate—do it better
   next time!
   Some ideas for club activities are:

• Poster drawings;


• Story writing;


• Quizzes;


• Panel discussions;


• Inviting an expert;


• Debates;


• Volunteer activity at clinic, with families or
  elsewhere;


• Being a “buddy” to a younger child;


• Role plays and drama;


• Slide/video shows;


• Distributing materials and condoms;


• Sports;


• Songs;


• Exhibitions; and


• Community walks.

Life Skills Education Programs empower children,

and such activities provide useful outlets for

learning and contributing long after the life skills

sessions are over.