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Youth
Clubs
Jeeva Jyothi
has vast
experience
in extending
services to
street and
working
children,
rag pickers,
child
labourers in
rice mills
and brick
kilns and
the Tsunami
victims.
However, as
the children
became
youths, the
organization
recognized
there was an
underlying
service gap,
and it moved
to fill it.
Thus Jeeva
Jyothi’s
Youth
Development
Clubs came
into
existence.
The clubs
are
comprised of
15 - 20
youth (of
both
genders) who
organize
informally
to work on
village
development
projects.
They promote
life skills
and job
training,
health and
HIV/AIDS
awareness
programs,
and similar
activities.
Jeeva Jyothi
mentors the
YDC members
and helps
them get
needed
training.
The elected
members from
the YDCs
will be sent
to represent
the Youth
Federation
and the
elected
members will
be
officiating
as office
bearers of
Youth
Movement,
the ultimate
body of
positive
youth
development.
The process
of shaping
youth into a
movement is
on the way.
Thalir
Thiran
Thittam
Thalir
Thiran
Thittam is a
life skills
education
programme
for
adolescents.
The
curriculum
was designed
by the
Aparajitha
Foundation
based on
World Health
Organization
and United
Nations
Organization’s
guidelines.
The
curriculum
is designed
and
implemented
with the
help of
multimedia
and the
sessions are
interactive.
Jeeva Jyothi
trains the
selected
staff from
the
partnering
schools to
facilitate
this
programme,
and also
monitors the
programme
activities.
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