Hi All
My name is Amare one of the grantee for GYCA HIV AIDS Small grant,
I am living in Bahir dar, the most beautiful and one of top tourist destination cities In Ethiopia, 560 km away from the capital, Addis Ababa.

Let me say more about me and my works since we all are invited to say about it a little bit. I late to submit b/c I was out of office for long hours

After graduating from Bahir Dar University of engineering in 2006, I started working on youth empowerment, HIV AIDS and Environmental programs.

The reason why I am working on HIV AIDS is that, Ethiopia is one of the top listed countries affected by HIV AIDS and its impact, so I decided to mobilize my peers, the community to play our personal stake in combating its spread, in hindering its social and economical problems.

My plan was to start implementing the program (GRANT) immediately in may, due to some inconvenience I am forced to select my children in august, from June till the mid of august school is closed in Ethiopia since these months are rainy (summer) seasons but for the last two weeks I got my self busy in dealing with the concerned officials to start selecting places that can host our children when they start their job.

Cheers

Amare

Project Title
Awareness Raising about HIV/AIDS among Young Women

Mission:
To promote awareness among young women about prevention of HIV/AIDS to reduce High risk sexual behavior by behavioral change communication and interventions in Peshawar city of North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.

Project Location:
Peshawar-Pakistan

Project objectives:

i. To know about the knowledge, attitude and high risk health behavior/practices among young women of Peshawar
ii. To strengthen the capacity of 20 young women activists in Behavior Change Communication to enable them to play their roles as agent of change in Prevention of HIV/AIDS among young women.
iii. To promote awareness about Prevention of HIV/AIDS among young women of Peshawar by peer to peer Education.
iv. To reduce high health risk behavioral threats through Behavior Change Communication among young women of Peshawar
Activities:

1. KAP Survey:

A survey on the knowledge, attitude and high risk Sexual health behavior/practices among young women of Peshawar will be conducted to know the level of awareness among young women in Peshawar.


2. Training
a. Selection and Editing of Training Manual and Training Material on Behavior Change Communication and Peer to Peer Education on HIV/AIDS
b. 5 days Training for 20 Young Women Activists to build their capacity in HIV/AIDS prevention, Behavior Change Communication and peer education. These young Women activists will replicate the knowledge in their communities.


3 . IEC Material Development

500 brochures developed on HIV/AIDS Prevention and distributed among Young Women of North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.

Output of the Project:
i.KAP Survey conducted and report developed
ii.Training Manual on Behavior Change and Communication for Training of young women activists adapted.
iii.20 Young women activists got five days training on Behavior change communicational and peer to peer education
iv.500 Brochures on prevention of HIV/AIDS developed, printed and disseminated
v.200 young women approached and informed by 20 young trained activists.