Together we start our #TalkingToBoys journey
It is vital that boys are taught from a young age that boys and girls are equal and worthy of utmost respect.
Fathers must demonstrate that equality at home by setting an example, by treating their wives with enormous respect, and telling both their sons and daughters how special they are and why he is proud of both the boy and the girl.
In some countries, gender-based violence is directed at women and girls by men which results in large part from women’s subordinate status in society due to traditional and cultural norms (patriarchal societies) and their low economic status (poverty).
Talking to Boys
Talking to Boys: 1 to 6
One of the most important lessons we can teach and learn: No means no! Guiding children younger than six to non-violence
Talking to Boys: 7 to 11
How your child feels about themselves will determine how they treat other people. You play a critical role in building your child’s self-image and the way they see themselves.
Talking to Boys Teens
Fathers of teens must teach them about consent and respect for someone else’s body
A trainer's handbook
for implementation of a Life Skills Programme
for Unaccompanied Male Adolescents
"BOYS ON THE MOVE" is a programme of life skills for unaccompanied and separated male adolescents displaced by conflict, poverty and often both.
It is especially dedicated to providing empowering skills and strengthening the resilience and competencies of the many boys and young men,
who, while making an already perilous journey, have been pulled into situations of violence, abuse and insecurity. The life skills presented in the programme
may be delivered in stages along their journey, to help such adolescents identify risks, cope with difficulties and solve problems in a positive and constructive way.
The programme addresses health and hygiene; emotions; coping; sexuality; relationships; communication; cultural awareness; money; connectivity; and planning. By integrating cross-cutting protection concerns related to adolescent sexual and reproductive health and prevention of violence and trafficking into 10 short sessions, this non-formal curriculum aims to make some potentially lifesaving information and abilities accessible to boys in changing and challenging life circumstances.
The modest trainer's handbook you are reading and the simple participant booklet it accompanies bring together some teaching and learning techniques well-known in youth work into a 10-step course that
can be delivered in hostels, camps, reception centres or even on the street. along the refugee and migrant routes leading towards Europe, is a complex criminal enterprise often linked to radicalization, violent extremism and smuggling of arms and contraband. All of which is sadly interwoven with desperate human tragedy lived at the family, community and individual level.
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“Through this campaign we hope that each and every South African will take up the responsibility to have these types of conversations with our children from an early age, so that it becomes a social norm and prevents these crimes from following our daughters into the future”.
Tina Thiart
