Life Skill Meeting minutes - 09/Jul/06

D's MoM from the groups

Attendees:
Maria, Ami, Shaheen, Srinka, Jaya, Varsha (?), Akash, Anil, Murtuza,
Dharin

Discussion details:

- Maria brought out importance of life skill - what is life skill, various topics covered under life skill.

- Life skill concentrates on development of "X" number of life surviving skill needed for overall development of human living in society- like confidence building, decision making, creative thinking, critical thinking, effective communication, interpersonal relationship, self awareness, empathy, coping with emotions, coping with stress.

- Point was driven that we should start with non-personal skills first before venturing into personal circumference. This will enable children to open up before we embark on latter.

- We decided that we should start with confidence building exercise.

- How often we should have life skill session is an open topic as of now. Once a month is something attendees found comfortable with. (Am I right?)

- Maria will train / talk on how to take life skill class before we start on this - start date for life skill is: 30/Jul/06. She wanted to have a class room but later on decided that Wilson garden park is fine. The pre-session will be about an hour or so. She would like to have most of the regular volunteers in the session so as to get everyone trained at the same time.

There are some old documents on this which can be made available on requirement basis.

Open items -
1. What is Hema ma'm from Saranga trust going to take? There should not be a repeat on similar kind of topics.
2. What is the frequency of life skill session that we are targeting?