By Dr. Laila Risgallah Wahba | Project Leader
Sexual abuse can start with bullying. This is why Not Guilty trains students on anti-bullying and how to protect yourself and others, keeping your safety at the same time.
Not Guilty uses innovative games and visuals to make the concepts of boundaries, respect and bullying stick in students' minds.
Not Guilty trained 200 students from kindergarten to grade 6 at New Ramses College in Cairo Egypt with anti-bullying training.
Not Guilty noticed that classes that integrated mentally challenged students had less bullying and more tolerance and acceptance of others who are different.
Not Guilty integrated new games to encourage self-confidence and anger management.
Each grade has training according to their mental stage because as we have learned that no one size fits all.
The students had a lot of fun and realized that hurtful words cannot be retrieved.
Hear what Mrs. Yustina an NRC teacher said,
"The bullying story where the bully was bigger than the other kids then when she started treating others nicely she became the same size like the other kids.
My favorite activity was the tooth paste activity. It was a visual example of how we can never take back the hurtful words we speak. Nor can we take back the damaging effect it has on others.
Kids say words and don't realize how hurtful they are. Kids absently blurt out words like, “I don't want to sit near this person, or yikes he is wearing glasses or I don't want to be with this person in the same group because he/she is lazy.
Today the students realized they can never take back what they said. We can never retrieve the negative effect it had on that person.
As I watched Not Guilty do the training, I had many ideas like do the shape of a carton man and make them make holes. Once that carton man is full of holes you cannot make it whole again. Another example is to glue two papers together and try to separate them, they will both be torn.
The box and the mirror game is brilliant. People will only see you as special if you have self- confidence and see yourself as special.
Bullying can happen at home, parents bully their own children when they say words like, “You are not enough.” iI parents think this of me, the child tells himself, then it must be true that I am not good enough. When friends in school bully me, the kid almost feels he/she deserve it. We all need to learn about bullying
I want to thank Not Guilty team. They are very creative in all the games and visual aids they used today.
Each trainer on the team was speaking to each grades according to the age group in a language they can easily understand."
Links:
Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.
If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.
Support this important cause by creating a personalized fundraising page.
Start a Fundraiser
