In Poptún we started the Diploma course in Comprehensive Education in Sexuality and Violence Prevention aimed at 55 primary school teachers. The training consists of 11 modules. In first, “ The right to education ”, we are working on the topics: Education with rights for the exercise of citizenship ; Legal and institutional framework focused on girls, boys, adolescents and young people, and Stereotypes and discrimination: challenges of education .
Global Humanitaria carries out this action by joining the strategy of the Ministry of Education that sexual health is part of the educational process , which is why it has included it in the Educational Reform and in the National Base Curriculum.
The consensus of educational entities responds to the evidence that schoolchildren receive very little information about sexuality, they do not know reliable sources where to find it and they feel ashamed to ask their doubts to the adults around them. All of this places them at risk of unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases or sexual abuse. Hence the need to train educators so that they can act as reliable sources and protectors of childhood and adolescence.
Through this diploma, teachers’ knowledge and the way they approach it in class are strengthened , through recreational activities appropriate to the age of their students, which allow the understanding of the contents and the expression of doubts.
Schools, and their projection in the community, make it possible to promote significant learning that is essential to reverse the alarming numbers of pregnancies in adolescents and girls, the increase in people infected with HIV, the high number of maternal deaths and the daily practice of violence, particularly sexual violence against women , as well as discrimination and racism.
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