Self-esteem is a basic human need it makes an essential contribution to the life process, is indispensable to normal and healthy self-development and adds a value for survival. Hence, the study aimed to know the impact of an educational program on self esteem among boys and girls residing in orphanages at Urban Bangalore district. Self structured questionnaire was developed and administered on a sample of 80 children which consisted of 40 boys and 40 girls, between the age group of 9-12 years. A module of the educational program was developed by the researcher and executed for the experimental group of respondents for a period of 3 months separately for boys and girls in the selected orphanages. The statistical analysis was carried out by applying percentage, standard deviation, mean, chi square and paired ‘t’ test. The findings revealed that, majority of boys and girls belonged to the age group of 12 years. In post-test the overall mean score percentage found to be higher as compared to pre-test mean score which is significant at 5% level. In all the dimensions of self esteem the 't' values found to be statistically significant(p<0.05) among boys and girls. During the post-test both boys and girls showed a higher score on the level of self esteem as compared to pre-test scores, the obtained chi-square value (87.55) found to be significant which showed the impact of an educational program on self esteem of children.
