By Mehalah Lingam
State Manager
Family Planning Association Melaka / Malaysia AIDS Council

Skills Building Workshop on Reproductive Health of Adolescents Module (RHAM) is designed to train the staff and volunteers precisely youths/peer educator on the use of RHAM to be resources person/facilitator/advisor as they [adolescents/young people] are more on providing the educators with sexual and reproductive health [SRH] education and life skills for a healthy and responsible lifestyle in the mission of achieving holistic youth development which consequently contributes to nation building and later to take on the role as trainer/educator to deliver SRH information and education.

Thus, this program is based on greater emphasis on the youth involvement and participation in the decision making process to gain better commitments in the activities and achieve greater results, for example, a young person who is aware, assertive and responsible. Activities designed in a way not to teach what should be done but more on the participants’s experience and opinions on certain SRH-related issues. This makes the program more effective. This involves activities like group, group presentation, games, recreational events where the participants get together exchanging ideas and view while getting to know each other.

By the end of the program, the participants will be able to acquire leadership and life skills and the youth (peer educator) will be able to educate their peers in both in and out of school setting effectively. Moreover, the participants would have received guidance and are able to conduct RSBW or RHAM youth camps in a youth-friendly manner and critically assess one’s belief and values.