Award Winners: June 2008

'NUR' Children and Youth Public Union

Location: AZERBAIJAN

NUR’s project focuses on orphans and street children and consists of 3 phases: 8 peer education sessions for 190 people, a youth conference with selected peer educators, and an event around World AIDS Day in the capital, Baku.

The Help

Location: Burma

The Help's project focused on young MSM (men having sex with men). They train 18 MSM leaders, each of whom train other people in their own districts. The Help also organises advocacy meetings with local authorities, distributes 10,000 condoms, conducts 6 workshops in small towns and counsels and support HIV positive people.

Y-PEER

Location: Croatia

Y-Peer’s project targets youth living in dorms around Croatia. They are translating the Staying Alive produced feature film 'Transit' and airing it as part of AIDS awareness workshops in 50 dorms. They are also sending a copy of Transit to high schools and NGOs all over Croatia.

25 Messengers

Location: Indonesia

Their project targets high risk youth (drug addicts, sex workers and youth customers). They train 20 peer educators who conduct outreach activities every month for a year. They are organising a capacity building workshop for the peer educators in the middle of the project to strengthen their skills and learn from their experience.

Kisumu Disability Self Help Group

Location: Kisumu, Kenya

KSHDG are building on their current project targeting disabled youth. They hold 4 Community dialogue forums, conduct peer education outreaches, organise three VCT promotion forums, peer education training for 30 disabled youths, and facilitate monthly video shows. They also aim to have joint activities with non-disabled youth.

REPACTED

Location: Kenya

They are building on their current project and focusing in particular on youth in prisons and sex workers through the use of their 'magnet theatre' approach. They train 75 'change agents' (peer educators), hold 3 youth symposiums, hold 11 community theatre outreaches with mobile testing units, create and distribute a monthly magazine, establish a support group, a community theatre group and organise monthly life skill demonstration forums as well as a World AIDS Day event.

Aware Girls

Location: Pakistan

Their project targets young women in high schools and colleges. They raise awareness on HIV in 10 schools and 5 colleges with the use of videos, lectures, discussions and printed material. They select 5 students and 2 teachers from each school/college and give them a 2 day training to enable them to establish Anti-AIDS clubs in their respective schools and colleges. They are also making a documentary about their project.

BALUTI: “Batang Laging Umiiwas sa Tiyak na Impeksyon” (Protect the Child from Infection)

Location: Philippines

Their project targets young people aged 10 to 19. Conducting a survey on current sexual health practices in schools and the community they are then training 30 school-based peer educators and 40 community-based peer educators to increase awareness on among 2,000 adolescents in school and 240 adolescents in the community. They are also increasing referral of ARSH-related cases to the health facility and improving safer sexual practices and behaviors among 100 adolescents.

Snapshot Community Cinema

Location: South Africa

This project targets township high schools. They are producuing a documentary that challenges men on gender issues and their behaviour. They also work with 4 high schools and identify 10 learners from each school who will volunteer themselves to participate in this program. They are producing a DVD and other material for a Youth clinic (peer educators & health workers) to be able to approach the challenge more proactively. All participants in the making of this documentary are trained to co-facilitate and open debates about the issue at hand.

Elizabeth Youth Group

Location: Tanzania

The project targets high-risk youth such as sex workers and drug users. They carry out “Training of Trainers’ for 100 young people, hold 2 workshops, 3 screenings of the documentary on Elizabeth (who used to be a sex worker and is living with HIV), organise 2 drama presentations, 1 concert, 1 music show and an event on World AIDS Day.

YEI (Youth Empowering Initiative)

Location: Uganda

Re-grant: Building up from last year's project, they are targeting out of school youth and focus on training vulnerable youth with skills. They are equipping 500 youths with vocational skills and basic HIV prevention skills; training 5 peer educators, organising 2 mobile VCT outings twice a month for 10 months, and organise weekly radio shows for 10 months.

Sociedad Wils Wilde

Location: Venezuela

They are developing a website on HIV and sexuality aimed at young people living in Venezuela. It is interactive and includes space for discussion forums and trainings as well as a daily radio show.

Other projects that were supported by 2008 funding were as follows:

NGO: Jóvenes Voluntarios por los DDHH y la Prevención del VIH
Location: Guatemala

NGO: Integrated Service for AIDS Prevention and Support Organisation (ISAPSO
)
Location: Ethiopia

NGO: Democratic Youth Organisation
Location: Grenada

NGO: Murhandziwa Trading and Projects
Location: South Africa
 
NGO: Youth Theater 'Light'
Location: Russia

NGO: Muon Sac Mau Club
Location: Vietnam