DHUSHOR

We want to assure that no women or girls need to hide her period pain telling it was flu,make people understand that consent can make difference to sex and rape,create comfort discussion capacities about sexual health and aware them about sexual diseases.We will use easy to get technology,means by making an app,videos,books(both e-books and printed) and stuffs that can engage students to practice this type of knowledge.

Ignorance about this matter is main factor of this problem.While we are trying to reach our plan to people's day to day life,with our up-to-date content and assets.We will make sure the maximum engagement of people with our project.So that people be easy with this taboo and don't feel shame about this.Getting knowledge from a healthy resource and a secured place to get any kind of help regarding this taboo will encourage anyone to come out to the light and inspire others.

Education system of Bangladesh has not accommodated sex education at all and existing health education is not effective because of social stigmas. Open discussion about these things remains a taboo for young people. Most parents express discomfort discussing those issues with their adolescent children. Consequently a big population of our teenagers and early adults are unaware about sex and health and getting their knowledge from unhealthy sources. School teachers are also reluctant to discuss them which leads them to a warped opinion about sex and hence result in lethal after-effects. The government is struggling to spread sex education among students even after taking numerous approaches.

After an inquisition on sex education most of the people have responded that they have a knowledge of 5 on a scale of 10 about sex and health related issues. When asked if it should be taught in classroom the response was in favor with 93%. Another 7% response was negative because of the conception of “talking about sex is bad”.

This is the taboo that we are willing to break with our solution which includes age-appropriate, up-to-date, region-based sex education, concept of period, STD prevention, sexual behavior and abstinence, negative impacts of pornography etc.

The population we are aiming to work directly are the very sensitive high school students and early adults. We observe the vulnerability that the youth have to face simply because of taboos regarding sexual issues in socio-institutional environments resulting them to acquire information from unauthorized and risky sources which often makes them expose to abuses and sexual health risks; not to mention again falling back in the vicious circle of taboos. That is why we came up with this incentive to address these issues to minimize the risks & breaking the taboos. Now how we are going to make them understand the integrity of it along with sustaining the relationship we build with them while educating- we would not just educate them for 4/6 months; rather what we are going to do is- after completing the courses of a particular institute, we will make them a part of our big network consisting online and offline platforms where they can discuss or simply just talk about experiences/pros/cons regarding the proper knowledge they would acquire by then. So, by creating a huge network of the students after completion of courses in their institutes, we will ensure their throughout participation in our cause.

To solve the taboo of sex education from our country, we have come up with a technology based solution. There are three phases of our solution:

1st Phase:
Consulting foreign sex education experts and with the collaboration with them, providing an age and culture appropriate curriculum for the students of high school by dividing them in two age groups of 11-13 and 14-16.
We will develop an app and website according to that curriculum. It will contain videos, games, and quizzes on human body, sexual organs, sexual intercourse, period, STDs and sexual health, contraceptives, negative impacts of pornography etcetera. It will also have a platform for the students to share their views and experiences regarding breaking this taboo and also any kind of sexual assault that they have experienced or seen.
We will run a pilot project by going to a few schools of Dhaka who are willing to take our service and providing them with our app free of cost. They will use this app in Health Education and Biology classes.
We will arrange campaign in Dhaka city to make the parents aware about the bad effect of this taboo.
2nd Phase:
With the spread we get from our first phase we will approach sponsors and donors.
We will provide our app to city school in exchange of fees.
Using the generated revenue we will approach rural schools.

3rd Phase:
When the taboo would be minimized and people will start to understand the values and positive effects of sex education, we will approach the government (e.g. education ministry) for financial aid and collaboration.

Our service will be instant, reachable, tech-based and abreast with modern times. That is why we will be able to create more engagement with customers .We will also have better incentive to provide age-appropriate, up-to-date sex education with the help of foreign experts and trained educators in this regard. So eventually the customers will feel the necessity of our service more and be aware of this issue.