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Royal Health Awareness Society
Annual Report 2018
2018 Achievements and Results:
RHAS implements 3 main programs under this initiative as follows:
Unplugged Program: peers awareness on harmful effects of
substance abuse, and building their
The program is composed of 12 curricular social and life skills for preventing of risky
and extracurricular sessions for adolescents behaviours.
7th-8th grades, as well as 3 sessions for
parents, conducted by the trained MoE • 26 educators were selected and trained
counsellors over two years. The sessions
focus on building adolescent capacity in by the core team members in the southern
social and life skills such as: self confidence, Jordan Valley and Karak areas and have
self esteem and ability to handle peer commenced their education sessions in
pressure. collaboration with the participating youth
centers.
• 460 schools are participating in the
Anti-Smoking Ambassadors
third year of the program until 2018-2019 program
academic year with a reach of 90,000
students. An interactive extra curricular activities
for students from 4th to 6th grades which
• 5000 parents participated in the program include: drawing, drama and games, to
increase their awareness about the harmful
attending relevant sessions. effects of smoking on all levels as well as
building their community. 240 schools are
Ypeer Program: participating in the program with a reach of
around 49,000 students during the second
Y-Peer targets youth 18+ years focusing year. Training workshops were held for 200
on peer to peer education model through
empowering youth educators on raising
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