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MTV's Staying Alive Foundation mandate is to support young people using innovative methods on the frontlines of the AIDS epidemic. Listed here are the projects that received grants on 1st December 2007.
All these grants have been made possible through our partnership with The Body Shop - www.thebodyshopinternational.com
Promundo
Andreza Silveira and Rogerio Brunelli
The NGO Promundo, which mainly works on gender issues, set up the project Youth for Gender Equity which will be lead by young people. The project will organise HIV prevention activities targeted at young people from one of the favelas in Rio. 10 young people will be selected to become educators to implement workshops in the community, using animated films, radionovelas and educational manuals.
Joy Development Association
Meaza Woubishet Feyisa
Building up from this year's grant, Meaza will expand her activities to support youth living with HIV in other parts of the city of Awassa, focussing especially on women. She will provide food and cloth support, business management and income generating training, community discussions, develop brochures, provide seed capital for 25 people living with HIV and strengthen 29 anti AIDS clubs.
Naz Foundation
Yadavendra Singh and Muskaan Kapoor
Last year SAF awarded a grant to the NAZ Foundation which was used to conduct prevention among the trucker community. This year The Naz Foundation set up a project that is aimed at the Hijra community, lead by a young Hijra. The Hijras are a sort of modern eunuch and excluded from society and very vulnerable to HIV. The project will reach out to this community by producing Hijra specific education materials, distribute condoms, conducting outreaches and workshops as well as produce some 30 second films to destigmatize condom use.
Positive Youth Initiative
Georgina Nakitari and Barbara Awuor
PYI is a group of mostly HIV+ youth. They want to train HIV+ youth to become educators and counsellors, develop their therapy sessions for young people living with HIV, organise dialogue forums for young people and develop their resource centres.
YPEER
Jacqualine A. Kowa and Carolyne O. Momanyi
Jacky is a young woman who has been heavily involved in developing peer education in Kenya. Working with other young people from Y-Peer Kenya, they want to educate and train adolescent orphans on peer education, organise drama pieces, produce an educational video documentary on youth theatre and distribute it to youth centres.
Girls 2 Mothers
Ibiye Lawson
Ibiye wants to expand her project to other communities and continue to aim to reduce the number of girls involved in commercial sex by creating awareness through IEC materials; promoting the use of condoms and VCT; counselling; vocational training; the development of micro-credit programs, and develop peer health educators.
Journalists Against AIDS
Ogechi Eronini
JAAIDS would like to build on the success of this year's internship programme lead by Ogechi a young staff member of JAAIDS. They will again employ 8 interns and train them in project management. Each of the interns will be given a small seed grant with which they need to design and implement a youth focused HIV prevention project. In addition they will conduct workshops on health journalism for youth leaders and produce youth materials on HIV.
Leaders with New Dimensions
Eunice Aghete and Onyebuchi Desmond
Eunice was a SAF award winner in 2005 when LEND was called Global Youth Partners. She and Onyebuchi want to raise awareness among 'hearing impaired youth' by producing and distributing special IEC materials, organising peer education for the target group, organising video showings, community walks and inter-school talent shows.
SAYHI
Kingsley Essomeonu
Kingsley will expand his project by continuing to raise awareness among university students through theatre, peer education, promoting VCT and providing in university campuses more drop boxes which include condoms and clean syringes, as well as organising activities which promote living positively with HIV+ students.
Youth Are Talking
Olushola Ajayi
YAT set up a radio programme called YOUTHMAG which is aimed at youth in Lagos and around. They want to produce radio jingles on HIV, have monthly call-in sessions with key personalities in the radio studio, produce interviews and organise skill building sessions with young people that are involved in media and HIV prevention.
Ezhova Irina Petrovna
Confidence
Confidence would like to use the Dance4Life technique (using dance as a medium to attract attention and raising awareness on HIV) in high schools in the Nozhniy Novgorod area. They will organise trainings for young volunteers from a number of schools, produce campaign materials, and carry out dance events in a number of schools in the region, aiming to reach 2000 young people.
Mobile VCT Project
Jean Luc Ugirashebuja, Olivier Gatete, Valens Ntamushobora and Salomon Sindayiheba
The Mobile VCT service project is set up by the medical student association of Rwanda. They want to train other students on HIV awareness and VCT, organise workshops for local leaders, organise public awareness through public animations, and form anti-HIV clubs.
Tanzanian Young Ambassadors living with HIV and AIDS
Annifa Amir, John Solanya and Fahreed Kubanda
Tayopa is an organisation composed of HIV+ youth who use drama, music and story telling to inform young people on HIV and AIDS. They want to organise a tour with some Hip hop artists to raise awareness about HIV. The artists will be given training on the issue and on top of the music tour members will also speak at schools, visit hospitals and talk to community leaders about the epidemic.
Teens Against AIDS
Charles Dingo
Building on their 2007 grant, Teens Against AIDS will continue project among the Masai population. They will train more young Masai youth on HIV, produce theatre pieces, organise village dialogues and teach young people on basic hygiene as well.
Carolina Empowerment Group
Natalia Cales
Natalia Cales is a young woman who recently lost her mother The Carolina Empowerment Group want to implement the Sisters Informing Healing Learning Empowering' HIV prevention programme in South Carolina, through partnering with other organisations. They will organise monthly youth sessions to discuss topics around HIV.
National Cultural Peace Workers Team (NCPWT)
Simukoko Phinehas
Building up from this years grant, Simukoko wants to expand his activities in more communities. He will organise peer education training workshops for young people, train influential community leaders in HIV advocacy skills and human rights as well as train traditional initiators in good health practices.
Student Partnership Worldwide
David Nkolola
Run by former SPW volunteer peer educators, this project is aimed at empowering young women in Zambia's central province through organising leadership workshops, awareness raising events and festivals in schools and produce simple grass roots materials providing information on key issues affecting young women in English and local languages.
Student Partnership Worldwide
Kainos Musvinu
SPWs Ex Volunteer Network' is aiming to raise awareness on HIV among university students, whore especially vulnerable to HIV due to the rise of transactional sex, by using non formal education techniques such as sports, theatre and musical festivals, as well as holding women's workshops and establishing support groups.
