Health Education Program

The socio-educational element of the project has “absorbed” and broadened the relative activities launched in the sphere of the “George” program. The project envisages capillary interventions of socio-health education aimed at young people, schools, parents, teachers and to educational personnel.

Specifically these are:

• Health Education Program in schools (50 primary and secondary schools: 10,000 studies per year)
• Medical Assistance Programs in schools (on average 400 students per year coming from primary and secondary schools)
• Start-ups of Youth Alive Clubs in 50 schools
• Seminars for Youth Leaders
• Weekly meetings with the Clubs, monthly meetings with the Club Patrons
• Training of teachers (Behaviour Change Process Training, for an average of 80 teachers per year)
• Training of Head teachers (on average 10 per year)
• Follow-ups for previously trained teachers
• Seminaries for parents (an average of 1000 families per year)

These interventions also include a Health Education Program in the slum districts (Village Program, averaging 2000 participants per year). Every year two “Public Rallies” are held, important events bearing witness to the fight against AIDS, attended by hundreds of students.

The project also included World Friends participation as well as young people who were involved in the programme at the World Social Forum 2007, Nairobi.