Even trainers say that the activities covered under the life skills course prevent students from going into depression.
One of the organizations we spoke to over the phone mentioned that during the initial days of training, the organization teaches a visually challenged student how to find his/her way to the institute and how to travel alone.
The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) linked life skills to education by stating that education should be directed towards the development of the child’s fullest potential.
The 1990 Jomtien Declaration on Education for All took this vision further and included life skills among essential learning tools for survival, capacity development and quality of life.
Life skills-based education (LSBE) is a form of education that focuses on cultivating personal life skills such as self-reflection, critical thinking, problem solving and interpersonal skills.
LSBE aims to help children reach their full personal potentials and to prepare them for the challenges of everyday life.
There exists a clear relationship between life skills acquisition and life quality.
When a person’s repertoire of various life skills increases, his or her independent functioning, social competence and quality of life is also thought to increase. Leisure activities, problem solving, creative thinking, coping with stress, awareness of self and others, effective communication, critical/lateral thinking, interpersonal relationships, resilience are all part of life skills.
The 2000 Dakar World Education Conference took a position that all young people and adults have the human right to benefit from "an education that includes learning to know, to do, to live together and to be", and included life skills in two out of the six EFA Goals.
Life skills-based education is now recognized as a methodology to address a variety of issues of child and youth development and thematic responses including as expressed in UNGASS on HIV/AIDS (2001), UNGASS on Children (2002), World Youth Report (2003), World Program for Human Rights Education (2004), UN Decade on Education for Sustainable Development (2005), UN Secretary General’s Study on Violence Against Children (2006), 51st Commission on the Status of Women (2007), and the World Development Report (2007).