The recent case of a 14-year-old girl sexually abused and impregnated by her brother in Malappuram is not the first such incident reported in recent years. Only one in 10 children in the State acquired sexuality education from family members, as per data based on Project X classroom experience sharing from Kanal Innovations, a charitable organisation that works among students in schools and colleges. A negligible per cent, that is 0.5% to 1%, of students received sexuality education from some camp or organisations that were not part of the school curriculum, it found.
Now, the Thiruvananthapuram district administration, the General Education department, and Kanal have joined hands to provide comprehensive sexuality education in 50 schools in the district this year.
Probably the first such programme being implemented for adolescents in collaboration with the government, Project X will be inaugurated by Director of General Education Shanavas S. at the Government Higher Secondary School, Cotton Hill, here on Tuesday.
