Life Skills and Peer Education for Chadian Youth

The year 2016 has been very challenging in Chad with an unsettled societal and political climate.

In fact this period has coincided with many strikes involving also young people. Students organized some strikes to claim their scholarship payment arrears. These students also reacted against the rape of one of their fellow student perpetrated by a group of young people. These societal matters make it very evident that in Chad life skills training and education is essential in order to create more democratic attitudes and give the youth values and problem solving skills that reduce negative behavior.

 This year special attention has been given to girls in life skills classes. There was a football match between the girls of the bilingual female high school of Amriguebe and the Lyceum Ibrahim Mahamat Itno Farcha. During and before the event girls from 6 life skills clubs  prepared and organized a cultural evening debate on the gender-based Violence , with a particular emphasis on female circumcision. This activity saw the participation of many young people and was well appreciated by the public. High school girls Doudji Lookar and those of Concord high school jointly hosted the evening. 

It has become evident that more training needs to be done to schools and other institutions to promote the life skills approach. This work has now been started by organizing training, knowledge exchange and information sharing with partner institutions and their staff. This has strengthened links with the Blue Cross Chad and facilitated access of the life skills animators for classes whose teachers and officials were reluctant in the past. 

You see that your support for this project changes the society for a better. At this season for football tournaments, why not sponsor us to keep the ball rolling by empowering the youth in Chad. We thank you for your continued support and look forward to providing further updates soon.