Cidadaos Do Mundo

How a multimedia campaign in Portugal is reaching at-risk immigrants

photo story by: Ruben Santos

Standing Proud

Three girls show off the project's magazine in the S.Filomena neighbourhoods

photo by: Ruben Santos

Passing on knowlege

Project leader Dynka takes some time to share notes outside of the classroom

photo by: Ruben Santos

Classroom

Dynka and a co-worker teach young people how to avoid risky behaviour at a school in Lisbon

photo by: Ruben Santos

Starting Early

Knowing the basics should be taught as early as possible

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Cooking

A local woman prepares food in the S.Filomena neighbourhoods

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Essential Guide

The project's magazine has reached over 3000 people so far

photo by: Ruben Santos

Teaching

Dynka congratulates the winner of a quiz

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Team

The students pose together for a photo with the project's magazine

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Smile

A student poses for a photo outside the school

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Touring

Project leader Dynka and his co-worker take a walk around the local neighbourhood

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Hands Up

Students show off the project's magazine in the classroom

photo by: Ruben Santos

Cidadaos Do Mundo

Portugal has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in Western Europe. Cidadaos Do Mundo is tackling health and social issues in the most deprived areas of Lisbon through an innovative media campaign. Young African migrants are learning life-saving information, at the same time as developing creative ways to pass on their knowledge.

Cidadaos Do Mundo

HIV has no borders. As long as people can cross continents, so can the virus. In Portugal, a group called Cidadaos Do Mundo is reaching migrants from Portuguese-speaking African countries with important information about HIV. Translated as ‘Citizens of the World’, this young organisation knows that uniting people from different backgrounds is vital to tackling HIV. With a virus that doesn’t differentiate between race, class, or gender, no one is immune.

Its project, Youth Media “to destroy” HIV/AIDS, uses innovative techniques to educate migrants about risky behaviour. Bringing migrants and non-migrants together to produce exciting material through blogs, radio shows, SMS, and a magazine, Dynka Amorim and his team have reached thousands since their first SAF grant in December 2009.

Their work is helping people whose exclusion from society can put them, and others, at risk of HIV through unemployment, drugs, and domestic violence.

Find out more about what they do in the video below: