Children at Risk from HIV/AIDS

The project focuses on educating children about the dangers of unprotected sex. It does this through peer educators who are trained to share their knowledge with other girls and boys in organised support groups and with their friends on the streets. Project organisers say some children have also developed the necessary skills to train other boys and girls to become peer educators.

The project enables sexually exploited girls to secure alternative employment to sex work by helping them to access education scholarships and vocational training programmes. It uses public drama and school clubs to work with parents and the wider community to develop wider awareness of HIV/AIDS and the particular situation of street children.

Children, HIV/AIDS

The project aims to directly assist the children and to reduce the number of children at risk by reducing the number of child sex workers. It intends to promote a model of child-focused HIV/AIDS prevention by conducting action-based research on the experience of its work with children at risk.