Constitutional provisions relating to children and women
Life skills education
1. Life Skills Education For Adolescent Girls
a) Personal and Social Skills
c)
• Personal Hygiene
• Fitness
• Sports
• Games
• Exercises
• Yoga
• Meditation etc.
b) Leisure Time Use
• Reading
• Listening to music
• Nature walks
• Hobbies
• Excursions
• Planning Holidays
2. g) Interpersonal Relationship j) Household Related Skills
• Relating-pleasantly to friends
• family visitors • Household Tasks ( cooking, nutrition,
• Guests balanced diet, natural foods, washing
• Public Functionaries and community at clothes, sweeping and cleaning,
large kitchen gardening, health and hygiene,
• Working and playing groups thrift, house hold remedies and
stitching )
h) Positive Self Concept
• Ability to identify one’s own strengths • Domestic Maintenance/Technology
and weaknesses
• Capitalizing on one’s strengths and Orientation – Minor electrical repairs
overcoming weakness (putting a fuse etc.), repair of water
taps/hand pump, bicycle maintenance,
i) Creative Self-Expression greasing, putting a puncture etc,
• Writing whitewashing, paining, maintenance
• Music of domestic appliances-stoves,
• Dance cookers, agriculture process
• Art
• Craft especially through folk medium
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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
6. 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
7. Laws related to crimes against women
Public 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