Today’s episode will focus on What is a relationship?

Can you guess why I chose this topic? That’s because it is important for girls and boys to learn about sex and understand the positive and negative impacts that it can have on young people’s wellbeing. It is also important to know how we can make clear and smart decisions regarding sex that we can apply in our lives as we grow up.

After this episode, you will be able to:

1) Define what a relationship is

2) Recognise signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships

3) Explain how an unhealthy relationship can damage a person’s self-worth

4) Describe ways of showing affection within a relationship that do not involve sex

*This podcast is created from the recordings prepared for the Sierra Leone Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education Radio Teaching Programme. The programme is coordinated by the Directorate of Non-Formal Education, with support from UNFPA and Irish Aid.