Peace Through Health

Peace Through Health is an IIPDEP programme for children and young people. Health education and media literacy are taught together.

The programme is based on the view that children need to know not only what is healthy, but how to read and question the health information they receive. Health messages reach children through television, advertising, pamphlets and other sources. Children are rarely taught to ask where that information comes from, who produced it, or what it is asking them to do.

Sessions cover:

• Basic health and personal hygiene
• Nutrition and food safety
• Personal safety and body awareness
• Understanding health messages in media and advertising
• Identifying reliable sources of health information
• Discussion of how media shapes ideas about health and illness

Facilitators use group discussion, role play, drawing and storytelling. Sessions are designed for children with limited prior exposure to formal health education. Camps are conducted in schools and community centres in Nagpur and surrounding areas.

Peace Through Health — children's health awareness and media literacy session, Nagpur.

Children participating in health education and media literacy activities, Nagpur.

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