Project Map

Targeting young men in prisons, this project offers education and awareness on HIV/AIDS, along with basic reproductive health information with voluntary counselling and testing. They use documentary screenings about real life prisoners and their daily struggles with drug use and men who have sex with men. Teaching sessions follow on from the screenings, with condom and lubricant distribution.

HIV information and voluntary counselling and testing sessions are carried out during football tournaments, along with peer education training focusing on police and security forces as well as soldiers.

Youth Theatre Light trains volunteers to perform drama within schools. They target five different localities and the certified theatre trainers are from these communities. They recruit other students to be trained during summer school to increase their volunteer base and continue on the performances.

The organisation creates clubs in colleges and high schools where they train students on peer education and HIV prevention messaging. They distribute posters and educational materials and organise ongoing film screenings at three events throughout the year.

Despite implementing this project in a conservative society, SYPN promote condom use as much as possible among young people. They reach out to youths through theatre based peer education in high schools, organise ongoing HIV/AIDS school clubs and produce radio talk shows.

The project targets young internally displaced people, with a focus on sex workers. SYSA organise awareness raising workshops, organise behavioural change communication sessions on the facts on HIV and produce an ongoing radio programming reaching out to internally displaced persons and transactional sex workers.

ADA strengthen the capacity of peer educators and constantly train new peer educators who organise debates, film screenings and theatre presentations in eight villages. They also organise radio shows on a local radio station and distribute condoms every month in each village.

The ‘Positive But Able’ project targets young people with a focus on former child soldiers and conducts monthly HIV counselling and testing outreaches, holds monthly HIV/AIDS sensitization meetings in the community using drama and video shows and consistently offers a three-day life-skills training for youths living with HIV.

The ‘Dance4Life’ project uses dance and drama to teach students about HIV prevention and stigma. Workshops are held by famous comedians, rap artists and dance groups. Students take charge of the Dance4Life activities in their own schools and become ‘agents 4 change’ – becoming actively involved in HIV prevention education.

The group targets youth both in and out of school and sex workers through drama and music to help raise awareness of HIV and AIDS and tackle stigma and discrimination. YAZ hosts events led by sex workers in the community on consistent condom use; the risk of positive infection and alternative livelihoods, HIV prevention services and sexual and reproductive health rights for young people.

The project called “Ecoles Sans Sida au Benin” (Schools without AIDS in Benin) targets young people in schools and a university in 2 areas; Cotonou and Abomey-Calavi. They reach out to ten high schools and one university with awareness raising activities including film screenings and debates.

QANRAYKU are in the final year of their SAF grant and target indigenous people in rural areas. They are currently training additional people by peer educators who have been previously trained by the organisation. They continue to organise awareness festivals and distribute educational material.

The project has been supported by SAF since December 2008 and SCVG continue to reach out to students through drama performances, youth forums and student workshops. They are continuing with peer education and condom distribution.

PHD train university students as peer educators and establish ‘youth centres’ at three campuses. The peer educators reach out to students through face-face interaction, condom distribution, workshops and provide counselling via PHDs hotline.

GLOWA reaches out to young people who have been victims of chid trafficking and child labour. Their project activities include testing events, using various media to raise awareness about HIV, distributing educational materials, ongoing local advocacy and targeting community service providers on the sexual needs of marginalized young people.

The project targets young people living in the street and young sex workers. They conduct mobile HIV testing, organise focus group discussions, distribute condoms, produce a quarterly radio programme and organise awareness sessions through dance, theatre and football.

The Student Scientific Society’s have created an Arabic website that provides information for teenagers about HIV, sex, and female genital mutilation in a safe and anonymous environment. They train young people who answer questions posted on the website.

WillWay Africa target young people living in rural Ghana and screen outdoor film shows on HIV awareness, hold football galas, conduct mobile confidential HIV testing, condom promotion and distribution and hold inter-school quiz competitions. The project also focuses on peer education.

The project targets rickshaw pullers who are trained as peer educators on HIV prevention and condom use. Behaviour change campaigns are executed in several districts with the educational materials created by the rickshaw pullers themselves.

The project targets girls living in rural areas where they train them as peer educators and form ‘Kishori Sabhas’ (youth clubs). They organise monthly games, community events focusing on stigma and discrimination and encourage young pregnant women to be tested for HIV.

This peer education project is aimed at young people brought up by sex workers who live in Kolkata. The group uses community theatre groups that perform ‘magnet theatre’, organise dialogue forums and create wall paintings in their community relaying HIV prevention messaging.

The project targets people living with HIV and eliminates the stigma associated around living with HIV. UNP+ reaches out to out of school youths through their youth centre where they organise events, advocate for the rights of people living with HIV and sensitize the media on ‘positive’ reporting techniques.

AYOMI works with the transgender community, who otherwise wouldn’t receive preventative information about HIV and AIDS. They organise trainings focusing on communication and condom negotiation and distribute condoms and educational materials among other things.

Thirteen secondary schools are targeted with HIV information messages through music, radio an fashion. Students create clothing lines for a campaign, conduct interactive radio discussions and teach students about HIV prevention through trained peer educators.

Afyafrika target young sex workers and their clients by training them as peer educators who forward on their knowledge to other sex workers in bars, hostels and brothels where they teach condom negotiation and use. Interactive pool tournaments are hold to teach clients about condom use as well as offering voluntary counselling and testing.

“Project Dance2Change” uses traditional Maasai cultural dances to pass on HIV and AIDS messaging, and targets morans (young Maasai men), young Maasai women and young livestock traders. They conduct outreach performances in four market areas followed by in-depth facilitated discussions on condom use.

The final year of their SAF grant, TACI offer a ‘Training the Trainers’ program to their peer educators, who carry out sustainable HIV awareness and education among the youth in the community. They organise social events in public markets and offer confidential HIV testing.

The Takieng Lao Community Theatre Group specialises in theatre and puppetry. They peer educate young leaders, actors and puppeteers on HIV prevention and perform theatre and puppetry in schools and universities in the capital.

GENET’s project is aimed at young girls in five localities, where they conduct five girl empowerment and skill building sessions, use monthly radio segments to educate on HIV prevention, train youth leaders on sexual reproductive health and provide ongoing counselling in the young girls.

The “HIV Aware! Be Empowered Act Positively” project targets ten new villages each year with outreach activities. They target local bus and train stations in Balti city with condoms, free HIV information material, and offer free confidential voluntary counselling and testing for young people within the city.

SAATH raises HIV and AIDS awareness through a monthly radio program called The Human Face, targeting students, women’s groups, mother groups and youth groups by incorporating street and community drama in different areas of Nepal.

The project target young people living in rural areas and focuses on network building and policy advocacy. They train peer educators who organise events in their local communities and include educational materials and condom distribution. They hold ongoing football tournaments and incorporate community awareness days.

Y-Peer train marginalised young people as peer educators in villages surrounding Lahore where they target commercial sex workers, drug users, men who have sex with men and truck drivers. They have ongoing peer education clubs, where HIV prevention messaging and safe sex practices are delivered in villages, colleges and universities. Condoms are distributed through community theatre events.

The organisation targets young people and in particular those living with HIV. A drop-in centre operates in Manila and encourages young people to know the facts about HIV prevention. Through their ‘I Am Positive Campaign’, YAFA peer educates young people, raises HIV awareness through education sessions and organises ongoing events throughout the year.

 ‘Sex! You Know?’ is a sex education training program aimed at high school in 3 cities targeting 9th to 12th grade students. There are currently no sexual education classes in public schools. The project targets seven schools with approximately 30 students in each and addresses issues including sexual knowledge, contraception, sexual relations and sex orientation along with the distribution of male and female condoms and lubricants.

Community radio is 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 identifies 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.

The project targets gypsy youth in Lahore with messages of HIV prevention and awareness through street performances, peer education and capacity building. AAN source peer educators from gypsy communities, providing capacity building workshops. Outreach activities in five gypsy communities are rolled out along with the formation of core groups of peer educators.

Queer Alliance targets young men who have sex with men (MSM) through their ‘Helping Ourselves Together’ (HOT) project. The project includes HIV and sexual health workshops, monthly literacy sessions for young MSM and ongoing training for peer educators on stigma and discrimination among other issues.

The project targets young people throughout Nepal by using a Red Ribbon Caravan that travels around the country spreading HIV and sexual reproductive health messaging in five different languages through music, dance, documentaries and games. The caravan visits nine communities and disseminates HIV prevention information.

CSHRYH focus on the young Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community using monologue and real life based storytelling through theatrical performances. Key messages are incorporated in the theatre, including sexual orientation, unsafe sex, discrimination and young LGBT people living positively.

The project targets three villages with interactive activities based on media, sport and theatre events. They train peer educators who organise workshops, create social theatre and conduct radio sessions airing on Moldova1 station.

The project targets military and paramilitary high-risk youths working and living in Gilgil. The organisation works from three locations and conducts peer education training, voluntary counselling and testing and uses interactive games including ‘Condolympics’ to educate about HIV prevention.

‘The Backstage’ project targets an area in the back of nightclubs to demonstrate condom use and distribution, along with HIV information. DJs are used as peer educators, and relay messages of safe sex and HIV through their music.

The project targets universities and high schools by raising awareness among students through organised events and stands. The stands, at ten universities and high schools, distribute informative material, condoms and the project also conducts interactive games.

The organisation reaches out to young gay men in Hanoi through online meetings as well as in person meetings, giving support and advice to young men as well as students at events. Some of the people they reached out to have now become active members of the group. The group offers small discussion groups for men who have sex with men and e-forums.

The Teen Spirit group reach our to young people living with HIV in London and those in high schools across the UK. They work with a creative agency that will hold weekly creative workshops with young people, with the aim of producing a short film together. The film will be shown in secondary schools around the country.

The group target young people from five university campuses and 30 secondary schools in Kampala on HIV prevention, particularly focusing on the link between alcohol and risky sexual behaviour, and female empowerment. Condom outlets are established in the universities along with condom distribution.

Pride Equality successfully reach out to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community in Freetown. The organisation produces radio programmes, educational materials, football tournaments and school debates among others to minimise homophobia and trans-phobia among the community.

CDNF use a 24 hour free helpline in several local languages to reach out to young people in the community on sexual reproductive health issues. They are also operating a counselling centre that offers referral services, HIV prevention information and face to face counselling. The centre’s activities are promoted through a weekly live radio programme.

The RROMA project targets youth in several municipalities and holds creative workshops with HIV prevention messaging. They train peer educators and organise awareness campaigns and create advocacy networks in Roma communities.

The project targets commercial sex workers and their clients by training them on HIV prevention and micro entrepreneurship. They train sex workers as peer educators, organise bi-monthly awareness sessions and focus group discussions among sex workers, distribute condoms and set up peer educations clubs in the local community.

The ‘Street Art 4 Life’ project trains young artists on skills and peer education. HIV prevention messages are illustrated through wall murals and graffiti. Street challenges include rap battles, female art and festivals that offer confidential HIV testing. The project targets out of school youth, transport workers, people living with HIV and street youth.

Vetri Kootam train rural youth from lower castes in HIV prevention and anti-stigma education. They create audio stories about HIV prevention which is transmitted through SMS and reach out to young people in secondary schools and out of school youth in rural villages.

The organisation offers peer education training on HIV to staff of small NGOs who work with women. They have also designed a website in Arabic aimed at young women, and organise public events in parks which offers voluntary HIV testing. Kindly supported by Global Champions Hassan & Farah Alaghband.

Fundacion OAH reaches out to vulnerable youth in Barranquilla by organising peer education sessions in schools and community centres. The are currently reaching out to different communities by educating additional peer educators.

The organisations initially targeted women in rural villages on HIV prevention and empowerment, and have now expanded to reach both sexes in urban and rural regions with a media campaign comprising of billboards, radio, and drama. United Vision distributes condoms and continues with voluntary counselling and testing in the region.

The organisation educates young people in schools through peer education and puppetry shows. They reach out to 12 schools in Bujumbura whilst organising film screenings for the students. Condoms and educational materials are distributed to both in school and out of school youths.