Program for Adolescent
Objectives
- To improve physical and mental health during the puberty period.
- To build awareness on food security and nutrition, social degradation, avoiding negative attitude s, and promoting themselves to a bright future in their lives.
Activities of KISHORI CLUB and School Forum
- Awareness raising on practicing norms and values.
- Leadership’s promotion and life skill development.
- Nutrition and Health services.
- Cultural and sports at club and school level
Duration: July 2019 to Continue
Area covered: Barguna Sadar & Bamna
Donor: PKSF/SANGRAM
Budget (BDT in lakh): 1251150
Project Name: Program for Adolescents
Financial Support by: Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF)
Implemented by: SANGRAM (Sangathita Gramunnyan Karmasuchi)
Program for Adolescents
Introduction
Children and adolescents in our society are growing up within the four walls of the family. Instead of organizing regular sports and club-organization in the neighborhood, they are building groups on Facebook-Twitter-Viber. They spend their time in a different, inconsistent world of their own making, as they do not participate in the field festival and are not involved in creative activities. They become lonely due to a lack of association with people of different ages and for various reasons, including poor social system, risky environment, unsatisfied education system, and free family environment. Growing up with loneliness, they cannot cope easily with stress, so they tend to make wrong decisions and rush to commit suicidal intentions. This situation has become risky during the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, there is a need for this important generation of the country to adopt a program suitable for them to grow up well. In this context, PKSF has adopted the ‘Program for Adolescents.’
Objective
Encouraging adolescents to develop a positive attitude towards social crime and degradation and to develop a healthy lifestyle by acquiring moral qualities and achieving good health, physical and mental health, and awareness about safe food and nutrition.
Scope of Program for Adolescents
Program for Adolescents includes the development of moral values and social awareness; Adolescence and health awareness; Hygiene, food, and nutrition awareness; Various activities are being implemented in these four areas – leadership development, skill development, and cultural and sports activities. In addition, various measures have been taken under the program to prevent multiple social degradation and unwanted incidences.
Working Procedure
Initiatives have been taken to form a club surveying by selecting a community of adolescents aged 09-18 years. Meetings with teenagers and their parents have been organized to exchange views on the goals, objectives, and expected outcomes of the club formation and their views on the formation of the club. After that, an 11-member committee was formed in each club through several meetings with teenagers and adolescents. 164 clubs were formed in three upazila of the Barguna district. The name of the club, venue, and meeting date has been fixed, and an action plan for the year has been planned. SANGRAM has provided equipment and supplies.
Implementation
The program for Adolescents was started in August 2019 with a total of 12 Adolescent Clubs, of which 5 of the UPP-Ujjibito projects and 7 were organized. Presently 128 Adolescents Clubs are working in two upazila. The members of these clubs are trained efficiently, providing orientation on club management. Clubs are functional with necessary documents, registers, sports equipment, and other items. Each club holds a total of 4 meetings on a month weekly basis. Weekly meetings are held in a colorful environment. The Program Officer in charge facilitates 2 meetings per month and enhances the knowledge through thematic discussions. In this way, the club members continue to work to increase social awareness on various issues, including health, nutrition, environmental protection, and hygiene promotion, to create interest in promoting norms and values. Although the club’s activities were suspended for a long time during the COVID-19 Pandemic, the clubs were able to establish a strong base in the area through the implementation of two years of activities
Furniture and Equipment
Adolescent Clubs were equipped with a steel cupboard for the safe storage of equipment, tools, materials, and goods under the Adolescent Program. Adequate books have been provided for the library, sports items like football, volleyball, cricket ball, bat, stamp, rope jump, archery on dartboard, ludo code, chess and carom board, etc. Provided medical items include blood pressure measuring instrument, diabetes measuring instrument and strip, height measuring tape, growth chart, ozone measuring instrument, thermometer, mock tape etc. For each member, a folder has been provided for storing documents received in training and orientation. Coronation security equipment was also provided.
Community-Based Initiatives
The members of the club work to create social awareness and interest in various issues, including health, nutrition, environmental protection, and hygiene promotion among the general people of the area. Particularly “Stopping Child Marriage” initiative has played a significant role in stopping it. As many as 16 child marriages have already been stopped through 32 clubs or the marriages have been canceled informing concerned authorities. Community-based health initiatives measure blood pressure, check diabetes, measure weight and determine the blood group. In 2021, checked the diabetes of 1446 people through 32 clubs and helped 1224 group people through 11 clubs. Four hundred eleven people were helped with CORONA vaccine registration. Each club organizes sports and cultural events.
Plantation
Planted 160 fruit trees through 32 clubs, and initiatives were taken to advise teenagers. Each of the club members planted 18 medicinal plants. According to the decision of the club members meeting, each member planted the required number of ornamental trees in the gateway of their homes.
The initiative of club members during the CORONA Virus Pandemic
Youths involved with the Barguna Adolescent Club under the Adolescent Program has stood up for the helpless and financially indigent people during the CORONA Crisis to the best of their ability. Clothing masks were made for 600 people through 32 clubs. Thirty-two meetings were organized among 1200 people, including members and guardians of 32 clubs, to discuss preventive measures. Later, the leading members of the Adolescents’ Club launched a door-to-door campaign to circulate accurate information about COVID-19 to save the community from rumors and panic.
Sheikh Rasel Day Celebration
Sheikh Rasel’s Birthday Discussion Meetings at 24 Adolescent Clubs in collaboration with PKSF under its Adolescents Program with the theme’ Indomitable Confidence’. A discussion meeting was held at Safipur Adolescent Club and Adolescent Club of Bamna Upazila on 18th October at 10 pm. Adolescent Club members had several discussion meetings on Sheikh Rasel’s biography, quiz competitions, and reading sessions.
| Sl No | Description | Total Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Number of the mentor (2 person per club) | 256 |
| 2 | Adolescent club-Male (1 per word) | 64 |
| 3 | Member of adolescent club-Male | 1056 |
| 4 | Adolescent club-Female (1 per word) | 64 |
| 5 | Member of adolescent club-Female | 992 |
| 6 | Signboard | 32 |
| 7 | Resolution book | 32 |
| 8 | Register | 160 |
| 9 | File | 64 |
| 10 | Seal (President, Treasurer) | 64 |
| 11 | Stamp pad | 32 |
| 12 | Number of libraries | 32 |
| 13 | Number of the book in the library | 960 |
| 14 | Distribution of health materials, digital BP machine | 32 |
| 15 | Digital weight machine | 32 |
| 16 | Thermometer | 32 |
| 17 | Digital diabetics machine (with 60 stips) | 32 |
| 18 | First aid box (knife, tooth forceps, artery forceps, gauze, cotton, bandage) | 32 |
| 19 | Sanitary napkin distribution | 1680 |
| 20 | Mask distribution (cotton) | 1200 |
| 21 | Distribution of toys, football, volleyball | 10 |
| 22 | Cricket set (bat, stand, gloves, ball, tap, and so on) | 8 |
| 23 | Dartboard | 22 |
| 24 | Ludu | 22 |
| 25 | Scatting rope | 64 |
| 26 | Board of health ludu | 30 |
| 27 | Developing Morality and Social Awareness Implementation | 3887 |
| 28 | Number of participants in Developing Morality and Social Awareness | 1551 |
| 29 | Adolescent Health Activities Implementation | 2477 |
| 30 | Number of participants in Adolescent Health Activities Implementation | 1349 |
| 31 | Cultural & Sports Activities Implementation | 56 |
| 32 | Number of the participant of Cultural & Sports Activities Implementation | 1867 |
| 33 | Number of yard meeting | 1031 |
| 34 | Number of the participant in the yard meeting | 20,049 |
| 35 | Curriculum | 186 |
Last Word
The dignity of the adolescent will increase based on the excellent completion of project activities. Discrimination of male-female rights, early marriage, eve teasing, sexual harassment, and physical and mental abuse will decrease significantly in society. Besides these, people will be aware of the puberty period’s physical and mental health and become healthy by consuming healthy and safe food. This will continue the awareness build-up about health and nutrition in their area. As a result, the adolescent will play a vital role in developing a happy and prosperous Bangladesh.
