A Challenge:Girls face significant challenges in relation to access to sports rooted in social norms of fears that sports grounds are not safe for girls. This greatly impacts the self-confidence of girls. One of Thamarai's first projects in Annai nagar was to create an enabling environment for sports so that parents would be at ease and that girls could play easily. We also … [Read more...] about Striving for Full-Potential: Building Confidence Through Sport
Training
Child Protection Training
The Child Protection training team in Thamarai Auroville Child Protection team, Honor and Pavithra have been frequent visitors to Thamarai in recent months, mentoring our youth facilitators in the subject of child protection and conducting programs directly with the children to build their awareness and ability to respond. A training for 22 youth facilitators These … [Read more...] about Child Protection Training
First aid training in Thamarai
Learning to manage small accidents and first response Small accidents can happen at any time so we invited the first aid training team Phillipe and Tenzin from youth link to take us through the basics with our 14 facilitators who work regularly with children. We learned how to handle everyday accidents including shock, burns, snake bites, car and bike accidents, and … [Read more...] about First aid training in Thamarai
Training for Thamarai team and youth facilitators
First aid and child safety At Thamarai we are refreshing and upskilling as a team in the company of youth facilitators from other villages after schools. This week, we look forward to a day long first aid program with the Youthlink team, that will enhance our ability to respond to small medical needs and accidents. Last week we had two sessions on child safety with Honor … [Read more...] about Training for Thamarai team and youth facilitators
Career opportunities and skill development
Sharing information Thamarai team has been concentrating efforts to enhance opportunities for young adults to get started with careers in life. We have a drop in service where information on training and cost free college opportunities is available and supports such as application filling with English and digital literacy training. We are in discussion with Auroville … [Read more...] about Career opportunities and skill development