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Description

Starter activity - to be done before the main activity:

Instructions:
1. Ask everyone to find a partner. One person in each pair should hold up their hand and make a fist. Their partner’s task is to find ways of opening the fist. Give them one minute to do this.
2. Stop the action. Ask for some examples of what the second person did. You’ll probably find most people tried to open the fist physically when they could have just asked their partner to open it.

Learning Outcome: • Learn basic facts about the scale and severity of violence against women and girls.

Resources

• A rope or long piece of string

Instructions

1. Lay the rope or string down in the middle of your room. Ask participants to stand in a row facing the rope, a few steps back from it.
2. The activity consists of people deciding whether or not they believe a certain facts is true or false. They must step towards the line if they think the statement is true and stay where they are if they think the statement is false.
3. Read the first statement. Once each participant has either stepped towards the line, or stayed in the same place, take a moment so everyone can see where the group has moved. Reveal the answer, then ask them to return to their original positions.
4. Read all statements.
5. Once complete bring the group together and debrief. What was surprising about the answers? Did people have to think about the statements before moving, or were they easy to decide? Were they shocked by any of the statements?
6. Finish this activity by explaining:
7. One of the specific targets in SDG5 is to ‘end all forms of violence against all women and girls, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation’.
8. All girls have the right to grow up free from violence and the fear of violence. Yet, millions of girls are unsafe at schools, on public transport and at home. This needs to stop. If you’d like to find out more about WAGGGS’ work to end violence, explore the Stop the Violence campaign and Voices Against Violence curriculum.

Tags

• #TeamGirl 2018
• empowerment
• Sexism

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