The National AIDS Programme/HIV Prevention Unit will be assisting the youth of our nation’s capital, Grand Turk with their responsibilities and their delivery of HIV/STI messages as Peer Educators within the High School and the community at large on Saturday, February 25, 2012.
This pilot project entitled, Bringing out the Leader from Within, will provide 20 deserving youth with the opportunity to sharpen their leadership skills and supply them with the tools required to be our leaders of tomorrow.
Bringing out the Leader From Within, which is facilitated by Learn & Lead Educational Center, targets personal and group development and strives to empower all teens that participate in the programme. Participants will explore topics such as effective communication, team building, conflict and issue resolution, time and stress management, creativity and inspiration, and study skills through multimedia presentations, learning games and activities, discussions and drama.
The skills acquired during this training programme according to AID’s Coordinator, Mrs. Aldora Robinson, “forms part of the new strategy to address Youth Peer Education on a more local, cultural, cost effective and sustainable level. It is also a support to the new Health and Family Life Education Curriculum supported by the National HIV Prevention Unit through the DFID funded project.”
Mrs. Robinson also explained that the DFID project had concluded, therefore the ‘Bringing out the Leader from Within’ is one approach to sustainable HIV/AIDs youth programmes.
This 8 weeks programme is for Peer Educators and other interested youth between the ages of 14 – 17 years old and will take place on Saturday afternoons from 3 – 5pm in the Environmental Health Conference Room. Interested parties should contact the National AIDS Programme at #649 – 946 -1675 for more information and to register their teens.
