HIV project, Workshop I & II

Saturday October 14th was our first step into the field for the HIV Awareness, Education and Prevention project. We went to the Sociedad Catolica San Jose (Sound familiar? Yes, well it should - I volunteered there for a few months when I first arrived!) to give the first part of our course on STI’s and HIV/AIDS to a group of nearly 20 people, a mix of students and teachers. Pepe and Carol gave the talk while Alice, Clau and I took photos, complemented the information, and jotted down a mad amount of notes to remember what changes had to be made to the Facilitator’s Manual we put together. (Photo on left is Alice helping out during one of the activities.) Now the project is really HAPPENING. Big grin. The second and final round with this group was the following week (Saturday October 21), there we dealt with prevention, self-esteem and behavioural changes. *Does a little dance*. It’s happeniiiiiiiiiiing! Call me a geek, but I am quite excited.

The group of participants plus the facilitators of the second week at the end of the workshop - the Red Cross-ites are the ones in red and white (Alice, Claudia, Risselli and Pepe).

Me giving the last bit of the course on behaviour changes, with Claudia on the right who is helping me out...