Room to Read India Holds National Seminar on Life Skills Education and Rolls out Its 3rd Annual Girls Education Program Campaign

To acknowledge the relevance of life expertise in enhancing equality and social justice in addition to particular person empowerment, Room to Read India, right this moment, hosted a National Seminar on ‘Life Skills Education: Empowerment and Equality’, which was attended by varied stakeholders, together with authorities officers, NGOs, advocacy consultants, donors and supporters of ladies’ empowerment.

Highlighting the significance of how life expertise have assumed larger significance over the many years, Room to Read India’s Country Director, Mr. Sourav Banerjee mentioned, “These set of skills have assumed greater significance over decades moving out from the domain of health to the larger domain of studied life decisions. We now see that it not only has the potential of helping youth develop positive behaviour which will help them steer away from situations of risk but also towards a fuller life, to realise who they are and what they want to be. Room to Read therefore continues to invest in creating an environment where adolescent girls can empower themselves.”

The occasion additionally featured the launch of Room to Read India’s annual flagship Girls Education Program marketing campaign – Har Kadam Beti Ke Sang. Launching the marketing campaign, Poornima Garg, Deputy Country Director, Room to Read India mentioned “This year’s campaign is themed on ‘Strengthening Schools as Empowering Spaces’ and will be rolled out across 9 Indian states. We believe that schools should be empowering spaces for future women leaders. They should be spaces where girls are seen and heard. With this spirit and commitment, Room to Read India is launching this year’s campaign today through which we aim to establish the importance of creating spaces where girls can lead and represent themselves.”

The occasion additionally supplied an unique platform for consultants to mirror on matters pertinent to adolescent women and different key stakeholders in context of life expertise schooling. There had been two panel discussions organized on ‘Framing Life Skills Education for Equality’ and ‘Strengthening and Supporting Life Skills Educators’ respectively. These discussions had been enriched by significant inputs from senior authorities officers and a few of the distinguished names working on women’ schooling and empowerment.