Disha Project
(Life Skills and Skill Training for Employment)
There is an increasing consensus that in order to have a meaningful impact on adolescents, it is necessary to work holistically through broad-based programmes covering education and vocational training, health and nutrition, and developing self- esteem.
Our Youth Development Training Programme initiated in 2000 is designed to meet the human development needs of adolescents to equip them with life skills and competencies needed to participate in adolescent and adult life successfully.
- Health and reproductive rights
- Education and equal opportunities
- Law and discriminatory practices within the family
- The growing violence against women
- Vocational and livelihood skills
Action India initiated Life skills training with peer educator strategy to reach the maximum number of youth. Life skills are behaviours used appropriately and responsibly in the management of personal affairs. They are a set of human skills acquired through training or direct experience that are used to handle problems and questions commonly encountered in daily human life. The subject varies greatly depending on societal norms and community expectations. Life skills are the abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life (WHO, 1993). These include training on gender and sexuality, coping with stress and anger, Decision making and right to choose, Negotiating power equations with family, HIV and AIDS, positive attitude towards relationships, vocational and livelihood training, Health and reproductive rights, Learning to say NO, this has enabled young men and women in our programs to develop greater empathy towards building equal relationships.
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