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WHAT
WE DO AND HAVE DONE
Youth in action have now given
a special attention to the needs of young women who are involved in
prostitution just because they have no any other means of earning a
living, these young women are not educated or have skills to allow them
get jobs, some of them are We have therefore started a
new project to help the girls who are involved in prostitution, we have
registered 84 of them. We are helping these girls get
to the normal life by offering vocational training and also will put
them in groups of five and help them start income generating
activities. We are training them in
Tailoring, embroidery, making batiks & tie-die. We also offer
training in poultry keeping. We decided to help these girls
because they are at high risk of becoming HIV/AIDS victims because the
life they live can directly lead to the infection. We providing
vocational training to young people who dropped out of school at early
ages. We provide counseling in many areas of life. In addition to
discussing HIV/AIDS and reproductive issues, we provide advice
regarding social and cultural issues. We ran a school for mentally
handicapped children, but had to stop due to lack of funds. We
have rented a building to be used temporarily as an office and seminar
hall. We are in contact with other organisations who assist us by
providing training materials. At present, 65 youth have
undergone training to facilitate in the education of others about STD
(HIV/AIDS particularily) control and the effects of drug abuse. We have
also secured four wheelchairs for disabled youths.
We
recently opened ournew office at Banana Sitaki Shari(Kipawa
Ward). The office is small The
office is used as a youth couselling centre to address the
issues of STDs and behavioural changes. We also provide special
counselling to girls who have become impregnated at young ages. |
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