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Education, child developement, poverty Our aims to promote family planning as a basic human right and the norm of a two-child family a voluntary basis and to achieve a balance between population and resources. It also aims to prepare young people for responsible attitudes in human sexuality and to provide education and services in under-served areas of the country. It generates awareness about small family through seminars, conferences and media and also by organising art/literacy competitions. It has been carrying out a number of need-based training programmes for various categories of personnel and volunteers in the fields of health and family planning. Broadly, they include health professionals, educators, field workers. Training of health professionals ranges from orientation sessions and courses for upgrading knowledge and counselling skills of both medical and paramedical to training in advances surgical techniques in family planning for medical doctors. Training of traditional birth attendants in safe obstetric practice and of practitioners of indigenous systems of medicine in reproductive and sexual health and family planning is a growing area of work. Sensitising and training educators including teachers in schools and colleges and adult