Dear friends are pleasure to me back to update you on the progress of my project. In the last 30 days I implemented some activities; therefore I faced some difficulties, those I overcome successful.

I was organizing the training session of political advocacy for young people at Moamba district, and my first difficult was the timeline. I could not organize the training sessions in the dates that I initially planned, because we had election in Mozambique. So during the previous date we had lot political meetings for elections, and we have been advised to not organize training at this time. So we have postponed that training sessions.

The second difficulty was the space for the training in Moamba district. He had previous agreement with a School to organize the training, but when we postponed the training time, we loose this agreement. The news dates was no compatible with timeline of the school, because the school was using the rooms for final examination.

We overcome the both difficult because we worked with local partnership (local youth organization and local government department). In this way we could find another place outside of the school to organize the training.

We could join together about 20 young people in almost a week and we orient the trainings successful. I was able to pass my knowledge from the trainings in political advocacy from GYCA, to another young people. We had lecture sessions, discussion sessions, small working groups’ sessions and as well practical exercise (in the field).

In the practical exercise they had to apply the research methodology (in advocacy context), when they was collection contributions for the next AIDS strategic planning for Mozambique. The exercises were good because at the end we were able to create recommendation for AIDS National council.

The training session had participation of young people from the both gender, and that is really difficulty in rural areas (where the people think the women’s should stay at home). That was possible thanks to local youth organization those convince the parents of these women’s.

The other good thing was the young people come from different fields (from schools, out of school, theater groups, and radio activists, between others).

At open session of the training we had a pleasure to receive the local officer from National AIDS Council. Now we start to work in advocacy to influence the next AIDS strategic planning, trough our contributions made during the training.