SAF regrant project SWAN, Nepal
December 2011 Grant Winners
by Shay Nolan
We welcome 12 new grantees to the SAF family, reaching across every part of the globe. This intake was particularly competitive, after receiving a record 1600 grant applications. We congratulate our new grantees on their extraordinary projects.
At SAF, we believe in continued support for past grantees, and this December we have regranted 13 organisations that we believe are achieving their project goals in their communities.
Part of our commitment is to help sustain our long term projects through ongoing funding and mentorship. This year has been no exception, with 13 organisations completing the 4 year grant cycle, which has been rewarding for both the grantee and SAF.
Sida’Sos
Location: Belgium
The project 'Sida'Sos debarque dans ton campus' translates into ‘comes to your campus’, and aims to raise awareness among students through organised events. This includes having stands at 10 universities and high schools. They will train 90 peer educators, with the inclusion of 40 student nurses who will man the stands. The stands will distribute informative materials, condoms and have interactive games.
E2SD Akorede
Location: Benin
We have been supporting E2SD since December 2008 and with their new 2 year grant, their project "Ecoles Sans Sida au Benin" (Schools without AIDS in Benin) will expand by going to 2 new areas: Cotonou and Abomey-Calavi. They will train 11 focal points from 10 high schools and 1 university who will each be expected to organise 1 awareness raising activity every month in their school/university. They will also organise 7 events, 2 demonstrations, film screenings, and 2 debates.
Qanrayku
Location: Bolivia
QANRAYKU are in their final year of their 3-year SAF grant and they plan to strengthen and expand their project by training additional people and have the people previously trained to do so. They will also organise information and awareness festivals and distribute educational materials.
Social Care Volunteer Group
Location: Burma
We have been supporting SCVG since December 2008 and have awarded them another grant. They will continue with peer education, dramas performances, youth forums, condom distribution and workshops for students.
PHD
Location: Cambodia
SAF has supported People Health Development Association (PHD) for the past year and has been impressed by their activities. They want to build on their achievements from last year by going to a university outside of Phnom Penh. They are planning to train an additional 75 students as peer educators from three different universities and set up 'youth corners' at the three university campuses. The 2275 peer educators (200 from last year) will be expected to reach out to their peers through awareness sessions, face- to-face peer interaction, condoms demonstrations, workshops, manning the youth corners, provide counselling through a hotline developed by PHD and organise a World AIDS Day Campaign at the universities, inlcuding movie screenings.
GLOWA
Location: Cameroon
SAF has supported Global Welfare Association (GLOWA) for the past year. GLOWA have reached out to young people who have been victims of chid trafficking and child labour. In the next stage of their project, they plan to recruit 30 school students as peer educators, to integrate the group and offer horizontal skill building opportunities to their peers while building on their ability to do community service. With the new and existing peer educators, they have committed to the following activities: two testing events and use various media to raise awareness about HIV and distribute educational materials. In addition, GLOWA will do some ongoing local advocacy, targeting local councils and community service providers on the sexual needs of marginalized young people, especially those who shall test positive during VCTs.
AJED
Location: Democratic Republic of Congo
SAF has been supporting Association des Jeunes Educateurs pour le Développement (AJED) for the past two years. They would like to develop their project aimed at young people living in the streets, including sex workers, by going to a port town outside of Kinshasa where many sex workers are based. They have also found a partner to do mobile testing which they will start doing on top of the following activities: organise focus group discussions, distribute condoms, produce a quarterly radio programme, organise 10 awareness sessions through dance, theatre and football as well as organised personal counselling in person and via phone.
Willway Africa
Location: Ghana
This project, ‘Spread the News not the Virus’ aims to make counseling and testing accessible and acceptable to all through mobile counseling and testing services, HIV awareness films, and football galas. These events, along with quizzes, testimonies from those living with HIV, and education through drama will contribute to Willway’s goal of reaching 4000 over-tens this year.
Nghathal Youth Club
Location: India
Continuing their awareness raising projects through music classes and concerts, this organisation will also expand into sporting activities. Musicians will be trained as peer educators and the centre will become a drop-in space where people can get information on HIV, drugs, and sexuality.
SHED
Location: India
SHED raises awareness on HIV among young migrant workers living in Tamilnadu. This year they will educate a further 150 workers as peer educators, organise street theatre, and distribute educational materials.
AYOMI
Location: Indonesia
AYOMI are in the second year of their 3-year SAF grant. Over the next 12 months they will continue to work with the transgender community in ACEH who otherwise wouldn't receive any information on HIV and AIDS. They will do this by organising trainings on communication and condom negotation skills, distribute condoms and educational materials among other things.
YOU
Location: Jamaica
SAF has been supporting Youth Organisation for Upliftment (YOU) since December 2010. YOU have targeted 13 secondary schools with HIV information messages through music, radio and fashion. Students help to create a clothing line for the campaign, interactive radio discussions take place where listeners can ask for advice via phone and internet, and peer education classes are taught to students about HIV prevention.
Impact Kenya Youth Initiative
Location: Kenya
IKYI’s ‘Girl Alive’ project began in 2009 with the support of the Staying Alive Foundation. With their new three-year grant, they are planning to expand the project in various ways. They plan to train sex workers as peer educators who will teach other sex workers in bars, hostels, and brothels about condom negotiation and use. Alcohol anonymous clubs will also be set up for sex workers and their clients. Further pool tournaments teaching clients about condom use will be held, as well as Voluntary Counselling and Testing sessions. A website will be developed, a drop-in centre established, and further employment and skill training will be held for sex workers in Narok town.
Street Level
Location: Kenya
‘The Backstage’ project will target nightclubs to demonstrate condom use and distribution, along with HIV information. DJs will be used as peer educators, and relay messages of safe sex and HIV through their music. The project activities include the training and mentorship of local DJ peer educators; distribution of information packs in the backstage area of nightclubs, mobile VCT for high-risk youth in urban slums, condom distribution and demonstration campaign and mobilization concerts.
TRACE KENYA
Location: Kenya
The project aims to reach 15,000 military and paramilitary high-risk youths working and living in Gilgil town. The project activities are designed to select 60 peer educators at three locations (Army Barracks, Police HQ, National Youth Training College), three sensitization forums by peer educators, VCT services at three locations, installation of condom dispensers and distribution, ‘Chanuka’ challenge – a game that tests officers knowledge, Condolympics – games involving condoms, football tug-of-war tournaments and World AIDS Day celebration involving officers.
YOMACDI
Locations: Kenya
‘Project Dance2Change’ seeks to use traditional Maasai cultural dances to pass on HIV messaging, targeting Morans (young Maasai men), young Maasai women and young livestock traders. Project activities include peer educating 30 young Moran and women followed by dance choreography training for the peer educators, which will help the dancers develop health messages through cultural Maasai dance scripts. There will be outreach performances in four markets followed by in-depth facilitated discussions and condom skill building sessions with village/market condom dispensers. There will be sensitization training for 20 targeted Maasai Elders and religious leaders in order to shape attitudes, perceptions and behaviour, along with clinic and community based testing and counselling. Finally, an annual dance Maasai Cultural Festival with facilitated discussions on HIV/AIDS will round off the year.
Takieng Lao Community Theatre Group
Location: Laos
The Takieng Lao Theatre group are in the second year of their 3-year grant. They are continuing their theatre performances by going into Khammoun province.
Alternativa
Location: Moldova
This project will target three villages in the Laloveni District and will introduce interactive activities based on media, sport and theatre events. Liaising with the three community stakeholders and local media will be the first project implementation, followed by KAP testing, creating an online blog and round table discussion with civil society and public institutions to combat the spread of HIV. They will also train 15 peer educators from the villages who will organise peer-to-peer workshops, distribute 6000 condoms and 900 brochures, the creation of social theatre to showcase a play, essay contest, fundraising fair, organising a march, organising a marathon and one radio session on Moldova1 station.
CISTE “Certitude”
Location: Moldova
SAF has been supporting CISTE for the past 12 months and with they want to continue the path of the "HIV Aware! Be Empowered Act Positively" project over the next three years. They intend to use the same approach, namely to develop a strong network of peer educators in 10 new villages each year, consisting of 20 young people who will organize outreach activities in their villages and reach around 2000 beneficiaries per year. They will also continue to work with their existing group of volunteers and empower them further with knowledge and skills so that they will distribute free HIV information materials, free condoms and provide free counselling concerning HIV and VCT in local bus and train stations from Balti city. From this, 30,000 young migrant workers from rural Moldova have been reached. In addition they will install three PopCorn4Life equipments in three stores from Moldova with which they intend to secure project sustainability in the long run. They will also focus on 15,000 young people who are students at Balti State University, who will be reached through condom dispensers installed on campus and they will also install two condom dispensers in local bus and train stations aimed at young people who are departing from Moldova during the night when it is more difficult to reach them.
CSHRYH
Location: Mongolia
The Centre for Supporting Human Right, Youth and Health (CSHRYH) will use monologue, real life based storytelling and role play through theatrical performances. To do this, CSHRYH will perform five plays with key messages including sexual orientation, unsafe sex, discrimination, LGB young people and living positively. The shows will be recorded and performed at 1000 target communities with posters distributed.
Social Service, Awareness Raising and Advocacy for Tranquility and Humanity
Location: Nepal
We have been supporting SAATH since Decemeber 2008 for the production of their weekly radio programme. With their new grant they will continue to host the radio program with new monthly themes but they will also organise awareness programmes on HIV & AIDS for students, women's groups, mother groups, youth groups and other communities by incorporating street and community drama in different areas of Nepal. In addition, the international audience will be able to listen to The Human Face program online.
SAHAYATRA
Location: Nepal
We have been supporting SAHAYATRA for 2 years and with their new 2-year grant, they are planning to focus more on network building and policy advocacy. They will do this by training an additional 25 people as peer educators who will organise events in their own communities, organise 8 street dramas, distribute educational materials and condoms, organise 2 football tournaments, organise 8 community awareness days, lobby among local community leaders, organise a regional conference on HIV/AIDS, and organise special events 3 days a year.
SWAN
Location: Nepal
SAF has been supporting SWAN for the past two years and continue to support them for their final grant year. SWAN aim to train an additional 30 people as peer educators, hold 15 awareness sessions in work places, hold regular one on one sessions with migrant youth, organise three street dramas, organise meetings to advocate for the reduction of stigma and discrimination of people living with HIV, hold five major events, and organise one youth retreat.
YUWA AIDS
Location: Nepal
The proposed project will involve a team of 15-20 young people travelling throughout rural Nepal in a caravan spreading different HIV and AIDS and SRHR related messages in five different languages through music, dance, documentaries and games. The project activities include the Red Ribbon Caravan – a travelling bus designed to attract attention with banners and slogans. The caravan will visit nine communities and perform folk dance & music relaying messages of HIV stigma and discrimination, documentary screenings, a mobile info cabin set up on site distributing information about HIV/AIDS, SMS campaign, with games and quizzes onsite.
Queer Alliance
Location: Nigeria
The ‘Helping Ourselves Together’ (HOT) project seeks to educate about MSM and HIV. The project will include interventions such as open house (learning circles) about HIV, and sexual health workshops for up to 500 MSM. HOT will train 15 peer educators and incorporate training workshops on sexuality, rights, and HIV for 20 HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) counsellors with the aim to address stigma and discrimination. By doing this, HOT aims to provide availability and access to HIV services through the use of information, education and communication and mobile telephony for the dissemination of HIV prevention, care and support services messages to MSM. The HOT project will aim to distribute up to 7,000 condoms and lubricants throughout the year.
AAN
Location: Pakistan
The aim of the Activists Advocacy Networks (AAN) project is to target gypsy youth in Lahore with messages of HIV prevention and awareness through street performances, peer education and capacity building. The first initiative will comprise of capacity building for the street theatre team, followed by street theatre performances in gypsy communities. AAN will then select peer educators from gypsy communities, providing capacity building workshops. Outreach activities in five gypsy communities will be rolled out along with the formation of core groups of peer educators. There will be referral with government treatment centres and NGOs for HIV+ care and support.
Y-Peer
Location: Pakistan
We have supported Y-Peer Pakistan for one year and are happy to extend their grant for another 3 years. Over the next 3 years they plan to reach out to particularly vulnerable populations in Lahore, including men who have sex with men, commercial sex workers, young drug users, and truck drivers. They will do this by: training marginalised young people as peer educators in villages surrounding Lahore; training students as peer educators; and hold a ‘training of trainers’ for the marginalized young people & young students on peer education & theatre based techniques for HIV prevention. They will also enhance peer to peer education on HIV prevention and safe sex practices by formulating village/college/university level "Peer Interaction Clubs"; and sensitising marginalised communities through theatre shows; promoting safe sex practices by distributing condoms during community theatre shows; and creating an enabling environment free from discrimination and taboos by organising an HIV prevention Festival engaging all the stakeholders.
AYJA
Location: Peru
Community radio will be used as a medium to foster awareness on HIV/AIDS and STIs among young people belonging to the Shipibo Conibo ethnic group in the Peruvian Amazon. The project will identify four peer promoters in each community to implement and host radio programs, monthly theatre and educational recreation activities in schools and community spaces that highlight HIV prevention and stigma and discrimination associated with HIV/AIDS, conduct four capacity building workshops for peer promoters to develop radio programs and develop culturally appropriate IEC material.
YAFA
Location: Philippines
SAF has supported Youth AIDS Filipinas Alliance (YAFA) for the past 12 months to set up a drop-in centre for young people, with a particular focus on young people living with HIV. The centre has been running for the past six months and over the next two years YAFA would like to develop the 'I Am Positive Campaign' through the following four major components: 1) I am Positive Peer-Educators’ Training for 50 young people; 2) 300 'I am Positive Peer-Educators’ HIV Awareness and Education Session; 3) I am Positive Campaign Major Events; and 4) Positive prevention for young Filipinos living with HIV done through the Drop-in Centre and YOUTH CARE (the Facebook support group of YAFA).
Bue Fixe
Location: Portugal
SAF has been supporting the group Bue Fixe (formerly under the umbrella organisation Citizens of the World) since December 2009 for their 'Youth Media: Our Response to HIV Infection' project. This is a project that uses media and communication skills produced by young migrants to promote adequate HIV prevention strategies towards their peers coming from Portuguese speaking countries in Africa who live in disadvantaged neighbourhoods surrounding the city of Lisbon. Over the next two years they would like to continue and strengthen the project through the following activities: organise two training workshops for their members to carry out the activities, a weekly radio program; a bi-monthly magazine (increase the distribution to four additional schools, two other libraries and one other shopping centre); an interactive blog about HIV/AIDS; SMS text messaging about HIV/AIDS questions & answers; educational TV spots to be distributed to our peers by internet and educational Radio spots to be broadcast during our radio program as well as by internet, distribute condoms in night clubs and other places frequented by youth.
Valart grupo de Teatro
Location: Portugal
‘Sex! You Know?’ is a sex education training program aimed at schools in three cities targeting 9th to 12th grade students. The first step of implementation is to liaise with seven targeted schools interested in including the program in their curriculum. There are currently no sexual education classes in public schools. The project will target seven schools with approximately 30 students in each and address issues including body sexual knowledge, contraception, sexual relations and sex orientation along with the distribution of male and female condoms and lubricants.
Medical Students Association of Rwanda
Location: Rwanda
Jean Luc and MEDSAR, based in the city of Huye, received their first grant in December 2007. They used it mainly to raise awareness about HIV by encouraging people to get tested. This year, they will expand their project by launching a website for young Rwandans, provide further support and development for anti-AIDS clubs, and carry out more mobile voluntary counselling and testing sessions. They will also organise special events that involve music, drama and sports activities as well as events for World AIDS Day.
UYRD
Location: Rwanda
This project aims to provide education and awareness on HIV/AIDS, basic reproductive health information and VCT access to 20 prisons in Eastern Rwanda. The first activity is to produce a documentary about real life prisoners and their daily struggles with drug use and MSM. Interviews with prisoners, prison leaders and different public officials will be included. Upon completion this film will be screened in each of the 20 prisons three times a year. Teaching sessions will also be implemented following the screening of the documentary, providing 3-4per week for each inmate through workshops, training, comedies and theatre. Male and female condoms will be distributed throughout the screening and teaching sessions along with mobile VCT access.
SYPN
Location: Somalia
SAF has been supporting Somaliland National Youth Peer Network (SYPN) for the past two years for their project that focuses on peer education. Despite being in a very conservative society, they try to promote condom use as much as possible. Activities of the project are: theatre based Peer Education in high schools, six theatre events will be conducted in six different main cities. Set up 6 new HIV and AIDS School Clubs; develop four new radio spots, and produce two radio talk shows and organise six sensitization meetings with drug addicts.
Somali Youth and Students Association
Location: Somalia
We have supported SYSA for 3 years now and have been impressed by their achievements in difficult conditions, working in camps for internally displaced people. With their new 2-year grant, SYSA are planning to expand their project by focusing on sex workers living in the camps. They will do the following activities: organise 6 awareness raising workshops; organise 4 behavioural change communication sessions on the facts of HIV, reduction of stigma and promotion of counselling and testing services; develop 10 bill boards and 10 slogans carrying comprehensive information on HIV and stigma and discrimination; develop 3 all-inclusive radio program focusing on the facts of HIV for the IDPs and the transactional sex workers; conduct a World AIDS Day event; organize 5 dramas; establish 27 focus group discussions; and train 100 young girls as ‘Trainers of Trainers’ who will give training about how to use female condoms.
ADA
Location: Togo
SAF has been supporting Association pour le Development et Amitie (ADA) since December 2009 and now ADA would like to expand their project by going into some new communities and also putting more importance into testing. Their ultimate goal as an organisation is to set up a resource centre where people will be able to get tested and get information on HIV. In the next 12 months, they are planning o do the following activities: strengthen the capacity of 40 peer educators and train 30 new peer educators who will organise 16 debates and 16 film screenings and four theatre presentations in eight villages, organise eight radio shows on a local radio station and distribute 5000 condoms every month in each village. In addition 16 people (two per village) from the trained peer educators will be trained as counsellors to counsel people who have been tested positive. Their aim will be to organise 15 mobile VCT sessions to get 700 people tested in total.
SWAPO
Location: Uganda
SAF has been supporting Support AIDS Widows and Orphans, Pader (SWAPO) for the past two years in their ‘Positive But Able’ project. They would like to continue the project by developing the following activities over the next two years: conducting monthly HIV counselling and testing outreaches to at least 50 people every month (January 2012 to December 2013); conducting monthly HIV/AIDS sensitization meetings in the community using drama and video shows, reaching at least 50 youths every month; provide HIV/AIDS and health education information to 120 pregnant mothers aged 16-32, and providing replacement feeding to 40 babies with HIV-positive mothers. Home visits will be conducted for 240 HIV-positive youths, reaching at least ten youths every month; and conducting a three-day life-skills training for 50 youths living with HIV and supporting them with agricultural inputs and advice.
YFC
Location: Vietnam
SAF has been supporting Youth Friendly Condom for the past 12 months and their aim in the years to come is to expand the scale of the project by increasing the number of universities participating in the project. Over the next 12 months they plan to train 20 new members of the Youth Friendly Clubs coming from 13 universities as peer educators to carry out peer education training and communication activities together with 25 existing members of the Youth Friendly Clubs in their respective universities; organize three big group discussions reaching 180 students at three new universities and organise 40 club sessions on HIV/AIDS prevention and SH/RH topics in 10 universities; organize 13 mini-events reaching 3,900 students and one "Festival Condom" reaching at least 5,200 students at 13 universities; empower youth involved to have their voice heard on the issue of condom and condom usage through a organised awareness raising petition reaching 80,000 signatures voting condom as their "Famous Big Friend" and lastly distribute IEC materials and condoms in all their activities.
Youth Rise
Location: International
Youth RISE is an international network coordinated by several young people with the aim to reduce the risks and harms associated with drug use among young people. Based on the successful creation of their harm reduction trainings launched in Romania and India, they're planning to roll these out in 6 countries over the next 3 years, starting with the Ukraine and Mexico.
YAZ
Location: Zimbabwe
SAF has been supporting Youth Advocates Zimbabwe in the past 12 months and over the next three years the project will build on experiences by making the activities more in depth and expand to a new urban area. Over the next three years they plan to train 20 young people in schools who will become community peer educators per year for the next three years on abstinence and consistent condom use through drama and music; to raise HIV/AIDS awareness through creative music and drama outreach whilst distributing fliers and pamphlets in three locations every month in three years; to host six social events with 120 young sex workers for the next three years on consistent condom use, the risk of positive infection and alternative livelihoods; to distribute 500 premium brand condoms in two different locations every month for three years; to advocate for access to HIV prevention services and sexual and reproductive rights for young people by hosting one public speaking competition every year in three years.
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by Maingiso ngwira on Dec 17 2011, 12:19 GMT
I want to thank you for the good job you are doing in making the world a better place for the future leaders.I believe that with all your help the youth are being changed.Keep it up.
by Tania on Feb 27 2012, 17:45 GMT
I'm really dissapointed that you didn't choose any project from Russia this time because our country do need any support - the epidemy is huge and quick here, our goverment doesn't support prevention projects for youngsters and our church is strongly agains condoms.