Life Skills Training: Social Empowerment

As well as the vocational training that can lead to a lifelong career, the Centres help build the confidence of the students. Most students, like Laxmi, have had to cope with the physical effects of leprosy – often from quite a young age.

They have also had to cope with being hidden away, or even banished from their families. Their previously supportive circle of friends in their community would have turned against them. This is traumatic for anyone, let alone a child or young person with limited experience of the world around them. Supporting the young people to believe in themselves in the face of such widespead social exclusion is absolutely essential for their future.

Essential skills Life skills training includes:
communication skills; social skills; personality development; positive thinking; dreams and goal setting; coping with shyness, loneliness, and fear; coping with anger, failure, and criticism; career guidance

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