What is LSBE? (Life skills-based education)

Indus resource center is creating awareness on reproductive health through girls education project funded by David and Lucille Packard foundation. Reproductive health has direct link links with population growth which is one of the chief concerns of today's world. Questions of family size, pregnancy spacing, status of women and age of marriage should be integrated in national population schemes. In conservative society questions of sexuality and reproductive health can not be openly discussed therefore it is packaged in a way to get accepted in larger audience. Adolescents needs to know about their bodies and their emotions. Talking about it can change mindset on inter personal relations, human rights, art of communication and most importantly lead towards women empowerment. There is no tools to measure the effectiveness of LSBE on adolescents but IRC claims that some changes are visible. The idea is to create awareness in boys and girls about health and hygiene,drug addiction, Interpersonal relationship, violence, how to communicate your feelings and overcoming peer pressure. There is a grave need to impart LSBE in community schools. The author gives example of Jibran who was having difficulty answering questions relating to his emotions, personality and desires at the age of 14. but further elaboration made him to discuss his ideas with the teacher. Many boys and girls need to be taught how to communicate and negotiate in order to take his or herself out of a difficult situation. Discuss their positive and negative traits, and how to over come them. Unfortunately there is only one way of teaching methodology in most of the schools across Pakistan, so student don't get much to discuss which is the other side of flow. Shabana rajput is an example of a teacher who discuss LSBE with students and so far getting a good response from them. She also interacts with parents of her female students condition and how to make improvement from parent side too. Maria Montessori has a very interesting model of teaching which says 'four planes of development of a child is a series of rebirths' and one needs to know about them. Source: http://www.dawn.com/news/1257998/what-is-lsbe