Youth poarticipants listening during the Youth Outreach activity- Makadara Constituiency.

The TASC members have organized 2 community outreach to their fellows peers in their communities.These are going to be based in Makadara contituency and kibera constituency where the youth volunteers are coming from and where the overral project is to cover.

Ther first training that took place was in Makadara constituency on the 12th of July 2008 at Jericho Social hall with an overall objective to sensitize our peers on stigma related to HIV/AIDS and give ways and means of combating stigma.

OVERVIEW
The function was started officially by the Makadara focal person Moses Oluchiri welcoming the youths to the workshop and elaborating to them the aim of the workshop. The participants were then required to give their expectations and after the introductions Christabell Opudo of Stay Alive Youth Group was introduced to share the background of the project.

PRESENTATIONS
The presentations was done by the 15 volunteers through an interactive session focused on on introduction to HIVAIDS and modes of transmission, stigma: its definition and forms of stigma.

Our invited guest's the Makadara Constituency Development Fund Youth representative was present and he talked about the youth development fund and how the young people can benefit and manage the fund. He is ready to work with teh team on any HIV/AIDS programmes since it was not so much covered in the youth community activities.
Also present was the welfare officer talked to the paticipanst sighting on how she was proud of the young people who participated in this program. She encouraged them to continue with the same spirit and that she was willing to support the Makadara youths by having the hall for free in their future activities. She was happy with the Kibera facilitators and she requested them to come back again.

CONCLUSION
The session was interactive and successful; it was well received by the participants and the community at large. Plans to have more of such dialogues are underway.

Save the date for the next community outreach in Kibera constituency.

Regards,
Christabell

Hello friends,

It is my pleasure to update you about our project activities. We have developed KAP (Knowledge, attitude, and perception) survey form, to get knowledge about the attitudes, knowledge and perception of young women towards HIV/AIDS.

The survey will be conducted in this month for need assessment of young women, and on the basis of survey a training will be conducted for young women of Peshawar City.

Gulalai
Pakistan

Hello friends,
It is my pleasure to update you about our project activities. We have developed KAP (Knowledge, attitude, and perception) survey form, to get knowledge about the attitudes, knowledge and perception of young women towards HIV/AIDS.

We will conduct survey in this month to do need assesment of young women, on the basis of which training will be organized for young women.

Gulalai
Pakistan

Introduction:
My name is Christabell Opudo, I come from Nairobi Kenya. I have been engaged in youth activities since 2006 focusing on advocacy on positive living and reaching out to young people by sharing information on HIV/AIDS. I realized that so many young people are not aware of their HIV status, since they have not taken the initiative to get tested and more so the young people who are living with that I met were trying very hard to empower themselves so at to live positive. Their efforts seemed tireless since they had not reached out to their fellow youth who they were involved into day to day activities. This did not only jeopardize their efforts to live positively with HIV but promoted stigma of all types among the young people.
Activities carried out:
Identification of volunteers.
These exercise was to help in identifying volunteers that would work together to achieve the projects objectives.
This was done through referral by group leaders in the identified constituencies Makadara and Kibera where the TASC project will cover.
The call was made to reach out to individuals who are interested to be volunteers to join the Together against stigma project with the qualities listed below:

1. Age 18-35 years (definition of youth according to Kenyan constitution)
2. Peer educator with knowledge on HIV/AIDS
3. A member of a youth group based in Nairobi
4. Ready to offer 2-4 hours per week when called upon on specific days
5. Active email address and phone number
6. With knowledge of either Makadara or Kibera constituency environs
7. Effective communication/facilitation skills will be an added advantage
The total number of volunteers who responded to this programme was 25 and due to the fact that the project was to cater for 15 volunteers, adjustments had to be done to be able to accommodate all the volunteers and this was possible as all the volunteers were taken through the grant made and also the activities involved.

Capacity building for volunteers
To be able to have effective volunteers who respond to the needs of the projects it is wise to build their capacity through trainings that focused on the project objectives to be ale to improve their way of handling the programme activities.
The 3 days capacity building training focused on training 25 participants on the topics below:

Day 1
1. Basic facts on HIV/AIDS Definition, modes of transmission,
2. Prevention and treatment, immune system, stages of HIV illness, signs and symptoms
3. Stigma definition and forms of stigma
4. Manifestation of Stigma,
5. Interventions to combating stigma

Day 2.
1. Volunteer trends & definitions.
2. Volunteer wheel
3. Volunteer Recruitment Selection and induction
4. Volunteer support, training and retention
5. Volunteer Evaluations and policies

Day 3.
1. Project management definition, objectives role of coordinator.
2. Managing resources,
3. Evaluation and report writing.
4. Facilitation skills
5. Overview Stay Alive youth group, TASC project and policies
6. TASC plan of action
7. Group work,
8. Evaluations

Allocation of duties and assignments
The participants divided duties and activities amongst themselves. The work force was dived into 2.
1. Members from Kibera community
To organize a youth dialogue focusing on HIV/AIDS and stigma related to it, at the Kibera community to be held on the 26th July 200. The facilitators will be the members from Makadara community.

2. Members from Makadara community.
To organize youth dialogue focusing on HIV/AIDS and stigma related to it, at the Makadara community level to be held on the 12th July 2008. The facilitators will be the participants from Kibera constituency.

Regards,
Christabel

Dear Friends,

The goal of our project was to build capacity of young women in HIV prevention and behavior change communication and to enable them to play their roles as agent of change in Prevention of HIV/AIDS among young women. It is my pleasure to inform you that we have start work on our project.

Staff has been hired, briefing meeting with staff was done in first week of the project, and work has been started on materials and manual development for trainings that will be conducted for capacity building of young women.

Before the training a KAP (Knowledge, Attitude, and Perception) survey will be conducted to know about the attitude, knowledge, and perception of young women about HIV/AIDS. We have also start working on preparation survey forms. I hope this project will be s success!!

Regards,
Gulalai
Pakistan