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Young
People Against HIV/AIDS
Through the Association
Djunta Mô Pa Tchada Grande and a number of local
partners, Lourenço Andrade organised a successful
HIV/AIDS awareness campaign in Cape Verde. As
such a project had never been done before in their
country, the positive feedback from participants
has encouraged them to conduct the same activities
again in 2006.
See the program
of activities for
2006 (English
| French)
The project
took place on the island of Santiago, in the Achada
Grande Frente neighbourhood. It was implemented
in two phases, over three months, and revolved
around soccer and basketball tournaments that
were followed by a conference on HIV/AIDS featuring
presentations by a doctor and a psychologist.
These activities attracted the participation of
the youths in the neighbourhood, and then information
on HIV/AIDS was also shared through the following
activities:
- Debates
- Quiz competitions
- Dance performances
- Distribution of information at the sport
tournaments
- Distribution of information door-to-door
The primary
objectives of this project were to hold soccer
and basketball tournament for the youth of the
aforementioned neighborhood in order to create
a sense of friendship among the youth as well
as to provide a way for them to fill their free
time and raise awareness of HIV/AIDS among the
participants. Based on the success of the activities,
these objectives have been met and similar activities
will be planned in the future.
"At times,
the activities continued until midnight but people
were not tired. Instead it was such a good atmosphere
that no one wanted to go home. The several hundred
partcipants consisted almost entirely of youths
and some participants even came from other regions
of the capital city of Praia to take part […]
[…] In general,
the obtained results were positive, with a large
social impact, involving a large number of young
people and others from the neighborhood and exceeding
our expections. During the activities the good
behaviour and response from the public and a strong
participation from the youth was evident. The
interest expressed by the people and the success
of the activities calls for the continuation of
initiatives such as this."
- Ivandro Jr. Monteiro Moniz,
President of the Association Djunta Mô Pa Tchada
Grande
Background
information
Objectives, activities, progress reports, workplan,
project proposal
Project
Report [.pdf 56Kb]
Evaluation of the project, translated into English
from Portuguese.
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Source:
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