“Introduction to touch”

Awareness among kids 7-12 age

• Pop up book - only pictures

Spreading awareness without generating fear about their relationships and maintain their innocence - known/ unknown people without naming the relationship

Schools don’t have facilities to show films, ppts etc

Different stories for different age groups

After stories there are messages like talking about good touch and bad touch

Trainers’ manual

• do’s and don’ts
• Stages of child development as per eric ericsons model
• Same for 1-2; 3-4; 5-6
• 7th onwards reproductive organs etc. separate for boys and girls
• Flowchart for each standard (1-6)
  • Story
  • Game
  • Body, clothes, privacy, care
  • Bad behavior by elderly people
  • What happens, why, how to say no, telling parents
  • Revision on behaviors
  • Revise everything again
  • If facilities available - show a film - “Komal chi goshta” and display helpline - or read story (if resources not available)
• 7th and 8th - reproductive organs, hygiene, sexual abuse
• 8th - love, attraction, infatuation etc - psychological changes along with physical changes
• Misconceptions, etc.
• Online sexual abuse model - new

Pune - 12 tehsils

700 school teachers were trained and they reached to 50k students - 2017-18

Research project - teachers were assessed pre-post about their knowledge and attitude - eg.: pocso law in india