January 29, 2016

Empower Adolescent Girls With Catapult

A year ago RMF backed the project Empower Adolescent Girls in India with Catapult: Action for Equality. On September 1, 2012, Real Medicine Foundation (RMF) conducted a workshop of 44 adolescent girls in the community hall in Bhagyapur Village. With the help of two books and a curriculum published by the National Level Government Organization for the Purpose of Adolescent Education, the content of the workshop was created. The content covered: What is Adolescence?, The Changes in Adolescence – Physical, Emotional, Psychological and Social, Anemia, Diet in Adolescence, Menstrual Cycle vs Myths & Misconceptions, and Personal Hygiene.

The highlight of the day was a play enacted by RMF facilitators that centered on a village girl who has attained puberty and had started experiencing stress and confusions about sudden changes in her body. She approached the Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (village nurse) and the ASHA clarified her doubts, answered her questions, and ensured her that there was nothing abnormal in those changes. The girls could relate themselves to the character of the girl in the role-play and responded very well to the example.

Building on that mini experiment & in-continuation , Catapult Fund enabled RMF to train 19 Project management staff including CNE’s on adolescents health hygiene & sanitation theme for conducting & managing in-school workshops. In the process, RMF CNE’s carried out 497 school sessions at 67 schools across 3 districts & sanitize 131 teachers. At the end October 2015 RMF Team had successfully trained 1966 In-school girls against the project target 1500.

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