Above is a glimpse of the three personal safety rules being
taught during the lessons of the Personal Safety Education (PSE) program by Arpan's PSE
Trainer
in a school in Mumbai.
Rule no. 1
It is
never alright for someone to touch, look at or talk about my private body
parts.
It is never alright for someone to ask me to touch, look at or talk
about heir private body parts.
Rule no. 2
If someone
breaks this rule, I will say NO and Run.
Rule no. 3
I will
tell a trusted elder person and that I have a touching problem.
Implementation
The PSE
program is implemented over 6 lesson plans of 35 - 40 mins. each over 6
days in which children are taught
- to identify with feelings, (happy, sad, anger, scared, confusion),
- the differences between safe and unsafe touches,
- the three personal safety rules through role play and worksheet
activities.
It is a comprehensive program that also includes awareness sessions with
parents pre and post the implementation of the PSE program with children
and training of teachers and school counselors pre PSE program.
