Since most youth are in schools, we decided to bring information on reproductive health to them in the schools. Thus the beginning of the Reproductive and Sexual Health Education project says Dr Sriani Basnayake, the founder of the project. This project, started in 1992, is the first effort in bringing reproductive and sexual health education to the schools in a systematic manner. Cultural sensitivity prevailing in Sri Lanka only allows for a programme which is exclusively an educational activity. As such, no service component was included.
Every lecture is arranged with the consent of the class teacher.
The school principal determines which students should attend the lecture. Then the project teacher carries out a pre-test. She then talks about physical development and about the human reproductive system. She talks about the misunderstandings and myths. Lectures are delivered with the aid of an overhead projector, flash cards, and flipcharts.