World AIDS Day Preparations: Interactive Training Workshop in Kazakhstan

none 28 Nov 2006 – 15:50 (modified on 29 Jav 2007 – 14:02)

by mlepeska

VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) hosted a workshop for educational workers and peer volunteers on 21 November in Zhitikara, an industrial town in Kostani Oblast, Kazakhstan introducing them to interactive training methodologies in raising awareness of HIV and AIDS in preparation for World AIDS Day.

Educational workers from each school in the town and coordinators of the youth volunteer centre which runs a peer education program came together to participate in an interactive training workshop focusing on HIV awareness. Participants were introduced to new interactive training ideas which they can use to enhance to their current HIV awareness campaigns.
Participants were invited to work together and solve an HIV and AIDS quiz before taking part in interactive trainings relating to the modes of transmission of HIV and how HIV can spread through a community. With a specialist from Social Fund ‘Help’ based in Kostani present the participants were also able to ask questions, check their knowledge and listen to up to date information relating to HIV and AIDS in Kazakhstan.
This is the first workshop of its kind in Zhitikara.
“Most participants assumed their community, wrongly, was unaffected by HIV however with nine registered cases here there is even greater need to educate the town about how to avoid putting yourself at risk” commented Vladimir Bozhko, coordinator of Zhitikara Youth Centre which runs a peer education program within the town.
VSO is a development charity that works through professional volunteers that are recruited from Canada, India, Ireland, Kenya, the Netherlands, the Philippines, the UK and Uganda. There are currently eight volunteers working within five oblasts around Kazakhstan in the areas health and social wellbeing and secure livelihoods. VSO also supports local and national volunteering initiatives, working with the government, civil society and the corporate sector to promote volunteering for development.
Tom Ketteley, the VSO volunteer based in Zhitikara, works with local youth groups to develop volunteering in the town. Two centre in Zhitikara form part of a regional network of volunteer centres which is supported by VSO National Volunteering Strategy.
For more information about this workshop please contact Tom Ketteley, VSO Volunteer NGO Development Advisor, by telephone on + 7 701 610 31 62 or by email on t.ketteley-alumni@lse.ac.uk . For more information regarding VSO in Kazakhstan please contact Seamus Bennet, Country Director, + 7 3272 73 51 40.

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