Our Future: Sexuality and life skills education for young people

Young people today are faced with many pressures and conflicting messages about how to manage their sexuality. They need support to grow up in a safe, happy and healthy way.

To address this, the Government of Zambia has a comprehensive strategy for sexual and reproductive health and HIV education for young people in and out of school.

This series of three books for Grades 4-9 contributes to the strategy by providing clear and factual information about puberty, friendship, gender, sexuality, pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, HIV and AIDS and drug use.

The books contain many learning activities and illustrations, which engage young people in understanding themselves and their world. They reflect on and ractise the virtues and skills needed to develop caring and loving relationships, make good decisions, solve problems and seek help.

The topics and activities are designed to fit into the national curriculum or to be used in extra curricula activities in or out of school. The books are accompanied by a Teachers’ Guide.

Only PDFs of these books are available from the Alliance (which can be downloaded from this page). Printed copies are being distributed to schools in Chipata, Zambia.

Books two and three in this series will be available in March 2007.

School teachers