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So these last two weeks have been BUSY!! We have done a total of 27 workshops and spoken to around 1,000 young people… and now we have to log ALL the data of the questionnaires. We have been working with children from ages 13- 18 years old. We have been doing a variety of activities with them. For the older ones we have been doing Mitos y Realidad (myths and realities), jigsaws that encourage them to think about the prejudice behind HIV and why we should talk more about HIV/AIDS. With the young ones we have been playing more games to promote awareness about HIV/AIDS such as a virus attack game, this allows the children to understand more how easily HIV can be transmitted and how easily people can be unaware that they have contracted it. Also we were able to explain how important it is to be educated about the true facts about how it’s transmitted. The young people have been responding well, the children engage in the activities and seem to really enjoy the workshops. Every school we have been to so far have asked us to return… hence why we have done 27 workshops! As well as raising awareness about HIV/AIDS we have also been trying to recruit new volunteers for the next ICS team as well as for PATSIDA. We’ve been encouraging people to like our Facebook page, ‘Patsida Sucre’ – please like it so we look popular!

We have also been lucky enough to be involved with another project. Whenever we don’t have workshops, we are able to go to a home work support centre which is funded by Compassion International. This centre supports children, whose parents are often unable to help them with their homework due to their parent’s lack of education. The children are selected depending on their household income. It helps children from ages 3-14 years old, the classes are split into morning and afternoon depending on when they have school. The centre also provides a nutritious meal at lunch which is usual the only meal they get of the day.  We helped at the centre by helping them with their homework and by loving them. At the centre, it is very important to educate the children on health and sanitation. So before lunch and snack time the children go and wash their hands with soap and running water.

 

We only have 3 weeks left on our project, but over these last few weeks we have perfected our workshops and really come together as a team. So we hope for these last few weeks to be really productive and do lots more workshops.

Love Team Sucre x