Empowering and healing children through learning empathy skills
- Behavioral issues
- Child care
- Child soldiers
- Education
- Education reform
- Youth development
- Youth leadership
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Ramanusha
Poopalaratnam
Eastern Social Development Foundation -Sri Lanka
, XX, Batticaloa
Social Worker.
Public (tuition-free)
More than 5 years
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Still in idea phase, but looking to launch soon
ESDF-SL aims to foster peace and development through empowerment, awareness building and development among multi cultured people.
Imagine and present for others'feeling and needs as steps to a path of transformation towards peace and development
Last year we provided NVC and empathy skills to 30 government workers and 30 Women rural development society(WRDS) members. Series of trainings were conducted and 10 of them participated a training of training programme. This project resulted impact among the individuals who under gone trainings and influenced change in the community. We collected the information from victims who go to government officials, hospitals and Government offices . From our evaluations we found that government service providers gained empathy skills and communication skills and treat the victims compassionately and effectively to help and empower them. The conflicts in the WRDS are decreased according to the information from the evaluation. The WRDS members also shared that the level of conflicts at their homes are reduced as they practice their empathy skills with their family members. Their tolerance and understanding for other ethnic groups and ex militants also improved.
•Empathy and hearing will be common practices among the school community in Kalkudah zone.
•Teachers and students will be available with the skills of empathy, healing and empowering.
•The past pains of young people are healed.
•Practice of empathy became a part of school system and culture.
•The tolerance, understanding and accepting different people from different background and different ideologies.
•Resource persons and multipliers to provide empathy skills will be available.
Teachers and students gain knowlege and skills in empathy to facilitate empathy groups
Provide training sessions on empathy skills to teachers
Provide training sessions on empathy skills to students and orientation for parents
Students’ empathy circles and teachers’ empathy circles are formed
Establisment of empathy culture in the school enviornment and better relationship between different communites.
Students and teachers go for exchange visits to other villages and organize common practice groups
Regular empathy circles are included in the school systems
Evaluation of the one year activities and skilled and committed empathy practioners will be identified for sustainability.
In our need assessment s , we collected information regard child abuse, child rights and gender based violence. In that survey ,we have found that how much these children are affected and misguided. The women from last year project who participated NVC trainings shared that how empathy skills and practice groups helped them to deal the challenges and empowered them. They shared that after they learnt NVC and empathy skills, they started empathizing children’s emotions. There was a positive shift in their children’s behaviors after that .Most of the children from this area is affected and traumatized. In our school visit for our need assessment, we interviewed some of the children. They shared their fears and pain of their lives. These experience motivated to start a project to teach empathy skills for students and teachers.
GBV desk of base hospital
Health department
Local NGOS
Social care centre
Probation department
ESDF‘s staff will work on the planning, coordination, implementation of the project. Peace animators, volunteers will be also take part in the implementation. Local and international resource persons for empathy skills ,Nonviolent communication and healing will be invited from for the trainings sessions and for the formation of practice groups. Consultants will be hired to for consultation and support to improve effectiveness of the project. external evaluators will be hired for the monitoring and evaluation purposes and improvement. Part time workers will be hired for the coordination.