Community sensitisation meetings have recently been undertaken, marking the start of a new project to tackle the spread of HIV & AIDS. This project was made possible thanks to a generous grant from an anonymous donor and is going to involve setting up AIDS Action Clubs in primary and secondary schools which will allow children to take centre stage in the fight against HIV & AIDS.

The intervention will also seek to empower all adolescents to take charge of their sexual and reproductive health by equipping them with the requisite knowledge, attitudes and practices which will see them protected and leading safer lives.

Each school will organise students into a voluntary AIDS Action Club, which will undertake several activities to help fight HIV & AIDS. The objective is to get 30 clubs up and running: 25 in primary schools and 5 in secondary schools.

There will also be an income generation element, with 30 projects initiated to help vulnerable children coping with the effects of HIV & AIDS. These projects will help pay for school fees and buy school uniform and materials and the aim is to get 300 vulnerable children attending school, courtesy of the AIDS Action Clubs.

One of the community sensitisation meetings

An HIV & AIDS education film showing at one of the community sensitisation meetings

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