ProActive Health Education Workshop Concept

Tirian's ProActive Workshops are designed to provide access to good quality health education for local village communities in remote regions in developing countries.

In 1996 a team of health and education professionals in spent several months designing a comprehensive Kindergarten to Grade 12 health curriculum in India as part of the HEPI team (Health Education Promotion International). The result was the production of the Total Schools Health Program, which is now being successfully implemented in a number of schools across India and internationally.

The directors of Tirian (Andrew & Gaia Grant) were part of this original team, and they have now created several independent workshop kits on key topics which are available for health teachers to use in Indonesia (with full Indonesian translation) and internationally. After an initial pilot project with the Sumba Foundation in October 2009, training staff to deliver the workshops using the kits, a number of excellent workshops were run with teachers, nurses and directly with children in schools remote schools. Whole communities are being positively impacted as a result.

 

This workshop series aims to:

1. Empower children and youth
   so that they may enhance their own health and that of their families and community. The student may then become the best health promoter in his/her community.
2. Raise the skills and self-esteem of teachers
   so that they may be proud to be a teacher and so enhance the whole teaching/learning process,
3. Improve the infrastructure of all communities
   i.e. clean, operating toilets, drinking water, and the community environment as a whole.
4. Outreach in a positive way to families and community
   that the school may better serve its community.

 

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