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When we talked about vaccinations - we obviously didn't consider this disease!
Well I've just got back from my 3rd briefing weekend, I had a really fantastic time! loads of laughs too!
We now have more of an idea what we will be doing when we get to South Africa.
Arrive in South Africa to be met by staff members from the
girl guide assosiation of South Africa and settle in.
Participate in National youth conference and peer education
training workshop.
Free weekend for sightseeing.
Visits to (guiding) schools/units in Soweto/ Gauteng central to
present MadAboutArt workshops.
Visits to Rustenburg region.
travel back to NSC.
Programme hosted by Gauteng East (visits to Kwa Thema and
Benoni schools/guiding units to present MadAboutArt workshops)
Say goodbye to 3 members of the group who retun home.
Travelling hopefully to an orphanage for a few days, to
Durban to meet a guider and to go on a safari.
9th July:
10th - 14th July:
15th - 16th July:
17th - 19th July:
20th - 24th July:
25th July:
26th - 28th July:
29th July:
30th July - 21st August:
Training plan
Peer Education workshop
Session One (half hour)
Ice-breakers, group forming & name games
All to prepare some
Guiding info – section leaflets (Lora)
Sheet –
Group-forming – give out animal pics, make animal noises to find rest of group
Group forming – put participants in height order then number
Write questions (to be answered if necessary in final session; can add own questions or myths)
Day One – afternoon
Hero books Activity 1: self-portrait, in pairs. If time, community, family, hero
Day Two - morning
Biology – basic facts, transmission
Becky and Paula and Kat
- Name Game (bits of male body, bits of female body, penetrative sex, other sex)
- Bingo with biology definitions
- Ground Rule (generated by group)
- True-false quiz (include own myths)
- Balloon stomp (with Q&A – have to match)
- Wildfire - Head-tapping game (adapted from Condom card game; needs 2 colours of tokens/paper bits)
Day Two – afternoon
Hero books Activity 6: Problem/monster/net (problem to do with assertiveness/AIDS)
Day Three - morning
Safe sex
Rachel and Mad
- Playing with condoms
- Passing blown-up condoms between knees/dodge ball (water-filled)
- Demonstrator; practice with bananas/demonstrator; blindfold practice
- Design leaflet/poster on condom advice
- Diamond ranking – rank the reasons given for non-condom use (and what can we do about these) (Reasons produced by peer educators in first session then taken round other sessions).
Day Three - afternoon
Self-esteem & Hero Books Activity 8: Shining Moment
Lora and Becky and Kat
Day Four - morning
Prejudice
Mad and Rachel
- Hot air balloon discussion game in small groups
- ‘Could you, should you, would you’ scenarios
- Draw body outline – feelings inside, how are being treated outside, how would like to be treated on outer
- Diamond – rank reasons why HIV is a problem
- Build/draw a character – what are they like; how would their life be different if HIV
Day Four – afternoon
Hero Books: Activity 9 - Tricks & Tactics for assertiveness and dealing with prejudice
Day Four - Final Session (half hour)
Give out certificates.
If five days, make first session longer or split. Or add final session – how can you use this training in your own communities.
Hi there
I write this from South Africa! today is the 14th July, I can't believe I have already been here for a week!
The flight was really long and overnight - didn't sleep much so was knackered when I got here!
The place is amazing, we've been training some peer educators this week some are guiders but most are rangers they have been great and most know more than I do!
I'm having a fab time here.
The weather is warm.
It's strange though because everyone here say's how cold it is because it's their winter and they have jumpers and coats on while I walk round in shorts and t-shirts.
We were laughing Wednesday reading the paper as it talks about Hypothermia and people dying from it in this really cold winter!!!!!!!
The national centre here is very nice, the training sessions are goin well.
on Wednesday we had a day off and we all went to a shopping centre where we went ice skating! when we got back we jumped in the pool it was so freezing, I have only just warmed up!
South Africa has already managed to do something to me!
I thought I knew a lot about myself but obviously I still have more to learn!
Last night we had a gala dinner which was actually no differant to most meals (we had fish and chips!) except at the end we presented some certificates and some dancing happened.
but in between the two they said thankyou to us and gave us this really sweet card and then sang us an African song.
I wasn't the only weak one though I think most of us had soggy eyes as well as some of the participants!
Everyone was so sweet with comments like
you are all angels, you have changed my life, saved me and inspired me, all from differant people!
any way I'm having the greatest time and we have a few weeks left yet!
I'm really enjoying it.
