Field of action

 

Youth Alive Club (15-30 years old)

A way of life

• To be well-informed about AIDS.
• To undertake programs of prevention thanks to discussions, songs, role plays, and sports.
• To get involved in events (celebrations, competitions) concerning fight against AIDS..
• To be with other teenagers, seropositive or orphan.
• To go deeper inside spiritual values that enable behaviour change (no sex before wedding and faithful).
• To counsel teenagers to make responsible choices and to respect others..
• To developp friendship, nice outings, and sport activities.

Club Activities

• Counselling activities from 1 to 6 days. Interventions in elementary and high-schools.
• Interventions in markets, bars, streets to inform young people about AIDS, and to make them aware of risky behaviours.
• Continuous training of the educators and counsellors.
• Support to teenagers living in a risky environment (street kids, orphans)..
• Search for a job and self-sufficiency activities (manufacture of t-shirts...).

 

Windows of hope (9-14 years old)

This group is dedicated to all the young persons before puberty. Prevention is very important at this age.The goal is to make them sensitive to dangers of adult's bad sexual habits, whom kids are often vistim of.
Measures : Meetings, outside games, discussions with parents.

YOPAC

Youth and Parents Crisis Counselling Center

This center opened in2002. It welcomes despained teenagers (addicted to drugs mainly) and their parents, mostly disoriented in front of their kids. It also takes to account prostitutes. The counsellors visit kids and orphans living in the streets. the center developps also "Voluntary Counselling and testing" which encourage young people to take HIV test.