Free Being Me – Nigerian Girl Guilds Association

Free Being Me: This educational programme is designed to engage participants especially 7- 10 year’s old around the world in exploring ideas about their body confidence and beauty that will affect them as they grow up, it shows participants that there is not just one way to look beautiful and that what’s inside them is what matters most.

AIM

To introduce the idea that society promote a narrow and unrealistic definition of beauty and help participants to uncover their story.

OBJECTIVE

To impact participants on the following: Images of beauty in the media don’t often show people as they really are Learn to value themselves and their abilities to build body confidence Share body confidence messages with friends can make us empowered and our communities There is a huge diversity of beauty ideas around the world The media use of narrow idea to sell things to us What is inside them is what matters most. There is not just one way to look beautiful.