Tyler Spencer of Athletes United for Social Justice
June 2009 Award Winners
In June, The Staying Alive Foundation proudly awarded 30 new grants to grassroots HIV and AIDS projects around the world. You can read about the recipients and their inspiring, change-making initiatives below. Each and every one continues to make a difference in their local community.
YEAH
Location: Australia
YEAH will develop a toolkit to organise AIDS awareness events in 30 universities around Australia. They will set up a working group composed of students to develop a 'Red Aware toolkit'. The toolkit will include the animation YEAH produced with their SAF grant in 2008, copies of the Staying Alive movie Transit, condoms and other educational materials.
NUR
Location: Azerbaijan
NUR, based in the capital Baku, are planning to expand their current project that the Staying Alive Foundation has supported since June 2008. Over the next 3 years they will train 100 peer educators, organise 2 red ribbon walks, a 5-day national HIV/AIDS awareness tour and 3 AIDS candle-light events on national TV. Their activities are aimed at young people aged 12-22 and in particular street children and refugees.
YouthWave
Location: Brazil
YouthWave will continue to expand their project that has been supported by the Staying Alive Foundation since December 2007. The project, aimed at young people living in the slum Mare of Rio de Janeiro, will continue to support the youth educators it has trained who will organise awareness actions, including showing films and organising discussions, in various public spaces, including youth centers, schools, hospitals and the streets.
The Help
Location: Burma
The Help, based in Easter Mandalay, will expand their current project that the Staying Alive Foundation has supported since June 2008. They will continue to focus on young gay men and in particular young gay men living with HIV. Their project will include 5 treatment literacy workshops, 60 counselling sessions, training 30 young gay men for advocacy work, plan 2 advocacy campaigns, distribute condoms and refer people to get tested.
Fundacion Via 3
Location: Columbia
Fundacion Via3, based in the Columbian capital Bogota, will be building on the achievements of their current grant that the Staying Alive Foundation has supported since June 2008. They will use the game and video that they have created over the past yars by presenting them in universities and schools. They also aim to reach an additional 5000 young people by shoing the Staying Alive film Transit and will create a new short film called 'USB digital promiscuity'.
Fundacion Organizacion Accion Humanista
Location: Columbia
This project, based in the city of Baranquilla, will train 50 young people, including people living with HIV, as peer educators who will go into schools and universities to raise awareness raising sessions and they will also produce a play and perform in 50 places throughout the city.
Y-Peer
Location: Croatia
Y-Peer will expand their current Staying Alive Foundation supported project that focussed on young people living in dorms. This year they will be organising 26 peer education workshops for adolescent asylum seekers and other vulnerable young people, around a variety of Staying Alive documentaries that will be translated into Croatian.
Enchi Youth Parliament
Location: Ghana
This is a peer education project aimed at vulnerable young people living in 20 communities in the district of Enchi-Aowin. They will train 30 young people as peer educators who will do outreach sessions in their own communities. They will also organise 10 radio sessions, organise a sports festival and organise a variety of awareness raising events.
Wake Up Pune Campaign
Location: India
This project, based in the city of Pune and lead by a young woman, is called the 'Take 10 Campaign'. The plan is to organise 10 different actions and activities that people can choose from during outreaches in schools, colleges and at community events. The actions include getting tested for HIV, but also writing, photography, cricket and theatre among other thigns. All these activities will include an HIV and AIDS educational aspect.
Amra Pradatik
Location: India
This is a peer education project lead by and aimed at young people brought up by sex workers who live in Calcutta. They will train 60 peer educators, set up a community theatre group that will perform 'magnet theatre' pieces on the streets, organise dialogue forums, produce a documentary, produce a comic book and create wall paintings in their community.
Human Touch
Location: India
This project is based in Nagpur and is aimed at girls living in rural areas. They will train 100 young people as peer educators and form 'Kishori Sabhas' (a sort of club) in 25 villages that will each have 15-20 members who will be trained by the formed peer educators. They will also organise 10 Antakshari games (based on song-making) in the villages every month and an annual competition will be held around Wolrd AID Day.
25 Messengers
Location: Indonesia
Building on their current project, which has been supported by the Staying Alive Foundation since June 2008, 25 Messengers, based in West Java, want to strenghten their own organisation and become a centre of excellence for peer educators. They will increase the capacity of 40 peer educators, organise advocacy workshops with local authorities, increase the availability of educational materials, conduct a radio show and organise a local youth congress for peere educators.
Onyx Players Youth Group
Location: Kenya
The Onyx Players Youth group are planning to train 60 peer educators, place message boxes in schools, organise participatory theatre sessions, story telling sessions, and a festival for young people in schools. In addition they will train 30 sex workers, mount condom dispensers in various places, organise a World AIDS Day event and outreach sessions in their community.
Repacted
Location: Kenya
Repacted, a grantee since June 2007, will expand their current project by training additional peer educators, perform magnet theatre in new places in Nakuru and beyond, organise training, theatre and testing sessions in prisons and organise community forums in various places in the city.
Kisumu Disabled Self Help Group
Location: Kenya
The Kisumu Disabled Self Help Group, also a grantee since June 2007, will expand their current project over the next 2 years. They will aim to reach out to more young disabled people by going into schools, training additional youth as peer educators, organise sport events, conduct one on one outreaches, and organise dialogue and film forums.
Tipundule Community Youth Organisation
Location: Malawi
The Tipundule Community Youth Organisation, based in the town of Zomba, will expand their current project which has been supported by the Staying Alive Foundation since June 2008. The plan is to increase the capacity of their volunteers and the youth corners that they have set up in the past 12 months. They will also set up 3 new youth clubs, distribute condoms and train an additional 30 peer educators. Their porject is aimed at youth mainly working as taxi drivers, market vendors and street youth.
Girls Empowerment Network
Location: Malawi
This is a a peer education project, based in Blantyre which will aim to train 100 girls as peer educators, organise girl empowerment workshops, a leadership conference, publish a newsletter and organise quarterly theatre, song and sports activities and an awareness sessions with local artists.
Liwonde Youth Network for Basic Education
Location: Malawi
This project is based in the town of Liwonde and the group will train 20 youth club leaders, establish 10 HIV and AIDS micro resource centers in youth clubs, organise 12 talk shows in schools and community centres, publish a quarterly youth magazine, distribute condoms and organise 4 public debates.
Girls Aware
Location: Pakistan
Aware Girls, based in the region of Swabi, want to expand their current project, which has been supported by the Staying Alive Foundation since June 2008. Over the next 3 years they will be training an additional 90 students and 60 young female teachers as volunteers, organise educational sessions in 90 schools, establish 30 AIDS disucssion clubs, and produce radio programmes.
BALUTI
Location: Philippines
BALUTI, based in the capital Manila, want to expand their current project that is aimed at adolescents and has been supported by the Staying Alive Foundation since June 2008. They will train an additional 40 young people, train 30 parent volunteers, organise 2 'Give me 5' peer education sessions for 240 people, organise film screenings, distribute condoms, organise home visits and 10 community service activities among other things.
Otrazheniye
Location: Russia
This is a peer education project based in the city of Kemerovo. They will train 40 volunteers who will in turn train 100 students, organise film screenings, community eventsm distribute condoms and create educational material among other things. Their activities are aimed at college and university students.
Snapshot Mobile Cinema
Location: South Africa
Snapshot Mobile Cinema, based in the township of Khayelitsha in Cape Town, has been a grantee since June 2007 and made several films about issues around HIV. In the next 12 months they will focus on youth empowerment and produce a 12 part series around this theme. They will continue to do screenings of their films in schools and youth centres.
Elizabeth Youth Group
Location: Tanzania
The Elizabeth Youth Group, based in Dar es Salaam, will extend their current project, which has been funded by the the Staying Alive Foundation, by training an additional 12 peer educators who will organise twice a month drama, music and film screenings (the documentary on Eliza, the founder of the group and the Staying Alive documentary The Diary of Kelly Rowland) over a period of 3 days to raise awareness on sex trafficking, drus use and HIV. The performers are previous sex workers that have been trained by the Elizabeth Youth group.
Makerere University Youth AID Club
Location: Uganda
This organisation, set up by university students based in capital Kampala, will train 90 students, set up 6 condom outlets, 10 anti-AIDS clubs, distribute 500 youth AID toolkits, form 2 music and drama groups who will stage 6 music and drama performances on HIV related themes.
Youth Empowerment Initiative
Location: Uganda
YEI has been a grantee since June 2007 and will expand their current project. Over the next 12 months they will continue with their monthly radio programmes, focussing on stigma and discriminiation, involve parents by holding one-on-one discussions with them, organise theatre pieces to encourage people to get tested and conduct open debates in high schools.
Athletes United for Social Justice
Location: USA
This project, based in Washington DC, wants to use sports to educate young people aged 10 to 14. They will select 30 athletes that will attend a training course that will turn them into HIV educators and "coaches". Each of those will be able to deliver the "grassroots soccer" curriculum which uses sports to educate young people about HIV and AIDS.
Sociedad Wills Wilde
Location: Venezuela
Wills Wilde, based in Merida, and a Staying Alive Grantee since 2005, will develop an educational campaign to promote condoms. The campaign will include condom stands, posters, games, murals, and condom holders among other things. They will traing 20 volunteers to execute the project and organise 200 'lightening workshops' on condom use in various public spaces. In addition they will give out educational information in schools and organise 20 visits to public places to distribute educational materials. The project will target the young gay, transsexual and transgender population in particular.
School Tour Team
Location: Vietnam
This project, based in the Vietnames capital Hanoi, uses the 'Dane 4 Life' technique to raise awareness about HIV in high schools. They will train 16 peer educators, including young people living with HIV, who will organise 22 workshops involving dancing, theatre and condom demonstrations among others. They will also create an online forum for people who participated in the workshops to continue to be involved and will also organise an art competition on speaking out about HIV which will be shown online and in a gallery in Hanoi.
Youth Dream Club
Location: Vietnam
The Youth Dream Club, also based in Hanoi, will organise a peer education project that will train 20 young gay men as outreach workers. They will be epxected to do daily outreaches in their communities, and distribute educational materials and condoms. They will also organise 5 communications shows, and refer young gay men to appropriate health services.
Arise and Shine Network Trust
Location: Zimbabwe
The Aris and Shine Network Trust, base din Bulawayo, will organise a peer education project that will train 60 students from 10 institutions, create 10 'Stay Alive' ambassadors, organise relationship and lifestyle seminars, distribute safe sex and abstinence pledge cards and condoms, publish a magazine, organise a street march, a concert and a testing week.
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by sudhir on Jun 04 2009, 08:28 GMT
work hard to gain hard for hiv/aids
by Jean Luc on Jun 04 2009, 15:16 GMT
Great!Congratulations to grant winners.And THANKS TO MTV/SAF for the support that's providing to young people.I am grateful for this.