Life Skills Training & Career Guidance

The ROPES organization has successfully developed and implemented life skills training and career guidance programs specifically designed for adolescents and young adults under the age of 24. The primary goal of these programs is to equip participants with the knowledge, skills, and experience that are essential for identifying options, exploring alternatives, and ultimately succeeding in society. By educating participants about the current and future trends in the labour market, as well as the complexities of the modern workplace, these programs effectively prepare them for the ever-evolving nature of the 21st-century workforce.

Furthermore, there is an urgent need for life skills education to be provided to all school-going children, as it enables them to acquire timely and relevant information, respond to opportunities and challenges, and cope with the changing needs of society. The National Curriculum Framework for School Education-2000 emphasizes that education must prepare students to face the challenges of life and be intimately linked with different life skills. The National Curriculum Framework-2005 also notes that learning has become an isolated activity that does not encourage children to link knowledge with their lives. Knowledge must be connected to life outside of school.

ROPES aims to provide comprehensive life skills education to students that will enable them to perform better in all aspects of life. This includes the acquisition of psychological competency, problem-solving skills, effective coping mechanisms, and the development of positive attitudes. Life skills education helps children acquire and apply skills that influence how they interact with others. The program teaches participants that living life fully and productively requires acquiring and mastering essential life skills.

The life skills education sessions are intended to help students understand themselves better, live life more consciously and deliberately, attain personal satisfaction and growth, enhance productivity, efficiency, self-esteem, and self-confidence, improve interpersonal relations, solve problems, face challenges, and tackle unforeseen contingencies. It also helps children maintain good physical and mental health and the capacity for happy living. Life skills education has a tremendous impact on reducing violent behaviour, increasing self-control and sociability, improving classroom behaviour, better handling interpersonal problems and coping with anxiety. Most importantly, it equips adolescents with using their head, hand and heart and promotes adaptability and adjustability. In total, 845 school teachers (378 boys and 467 girls) participated in the life skills and career guidance training conducted by ROPES.