Girls' Success: Mentoring Guide for Life Skills

This guide from the Academy for Educational Development (AED) Center for Gender Equity is intended to support individuals to become mentors for girls in order to help them develop important life skills. Some of the topics covered include healthy living, inner strength, making good choices, reproductive health, and sexuality. The guide provides discussion questions about each topic and learning activities that can be conducted in mentoring sessions or when girls are in school or with their families. [Editor's note: According to the AED website, a second volume is now being created (2010).]

Contents:
About this Guide

• I. Mentoring for Girls’ Success
  1. Mentoring for Success
  2. Planning Mentoring Sessions and Activities
• II. Healthy Living
  1. Eating Well
  2. Keeping Good Hygiene
  3. Accessing Clean Water
  4. Preventing Disease
  5. Avoiding Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs
• III. Inner Strength and Good Choices
  1. Communicating Well
  2. Making Good Decisions
  3. Promoting Good Peer Pressure
  4. Understanding Emotions
• IV. Reproductive Health and Sexuality
  1. Understanding Puberty and Sexuality
  2. Learning about Menstruation
  3. Becoming Pregnant at the Right Time 
  4. Knowing about Birth Control
  5. Avoiding Sexually Transmitted Infections
  6. Staying Away from Sugar Daddies
  7. Stopping Violence against Girls and Women
• V. Rights and Responsibilities of the Child
  1. Upholding the Rights of the Child
     
  2. Reducing Early Marriage
  3. Helping to Support the family
  4. Fulfilling Responsibilities to the Community and the Environment