Our school education is still chalk and talk based. Children will have to learn facts and figures and copy exactly what was taught in the exams. There are not much reflections at school or home where the lessons learnt from the schools are used. This will not prepare a child for better future. It will only help add another unemployed citizen.
So the children’s life skills facilitation project provides children opportunities to learn different practical social life skills and creativity before and after schools through children’s clubs.
In Nepal, poverty, discrimination, ignorance and harmful practices expose children to underprivileged conditions. This in turn jeopardize their fragile childhood and, ultimately, their entire lives. Financial burden prevents them from getting educated and acquiring skills. They are unable to realize their potential and enhance their abilities. They do not know how to deal with life situations in an organised manner. As an adult, they are not fit for the job market and end up as wage labours. The cycle of poverty thus persists and continue from generations to generations.
Project Goal
To teach children essential social life skills and help them become creative to solve their day to day issues. Every child will have opportunity to participate in their developmental activities through children’s clubs. This project aligns with UN SDGs 4 Quality Education and 5 Gender Equality.
Project Description
Children’s Life Skills Facilitation Project provides an opportunity and platform for children to explore their innate talents and promote social life skills and creativity. VIN facilitates the establishment of autonomous Children’s Clubs, providing active mechanisms to exercise and advocate children’s rights.
We facilitate life-skill workshops such as leadership and creativity development. Leadership skills include strategic thinking, planning & delivery, people management, change management, communication, time management, personality development, presentation, managing emotions.
Creativity in children are developed by organizing creative writing, street drama, acting, dance, singings, origami, quizzes, debates, drawings, music, research activates etc.
As of 2020, VIN’s Children’s Life Skills Facilitation Project has been able support 18,152 children through children’s clubs in our working communities marginalized communities.
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Research/Reports
To know more about Children and Life Skills Education in Nepal, please visit the reports below:
Assessing Girls’ Life Skills and Children’s Reading Habits in Marginalized Districts in Nepal – By Room to Read
Teaching a Child to Fish – By Stephen Jenkinson
