BANGALORE: Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan’s (SSA) ‘Kishori’, an awareness programme to sensitise adolescent school girls about menstruation and other related issues, has gone non-residential this year, where trainers would visit more than 23,000 schools across the state. As a result, more than 6 lakh adolescent girls would benefit from the programme. “Last year’s programme covered around one lakh girl students. This was the result of a camp-based model, where girls visited these camps. This time, a non-residential approach has been adopted, where resource persons would visit respective schools for training the girls,” said H B Chandra Shekhar, Junior Programme Officer. It was because of his efforts that Kishori is now able to reach more adolescent girls across the state. “There were discrepancies in selection of girls who would be a part of the programme. Only the privileged could commute to the place of the camps. That did not serve our purpose,” he said. The programme will be held on weekends for two weeks in each school for higher primary girls (classes 6, 7 and 8). Kishori has a budget allocation of `324 lakh this year. As many as 12309 resource persons, who have been trained by respective District Institutes of Education Training (DIETs), will visit schools in 4103 clusters (blocks) across the state. “We are providing the trainers with a large calendar containing 12 pictures that can be used for demonstration,” said Chandra Shekhar. “This approach has made Kishori cost-effective, as the only costs we incur now is on books, documentation and conveyance for the trainers,” he said. Some of the topics that will be covered are child rights, menstrual hygiene, gender equality, parts of the human body, changes due to adolescence and reproductive process in humans.
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