By Sarah Todd | Project Leader
A lack of knowledge is one of the biggest struggles concerning HIV around Lake Tanganyika. At the Good News II Orphan School in Mpulungu, Zambia we have taken steps to combat this struggle by sharing hope-giving knowledge with our students.
At one of our after school programs, Pure Girls, one of the teachers who received training through AIDSLink was able to lead several sessions with the girls about HIV. These sessions helped the girls to reflect on the stigma around HIV and gain practical knowledge through activities and question/answer sessions. They were challenged to apply the learning they received to their own lives and to take action in sharing with others. The girls were also led to consider how they can help others who may be living with HIV.
In the future, our team at the lake would also like to go through these same sessions with the Smart Boys after school program at the school. Our long term goal would be to visit Self-Help groups in the villages so that this life-giving knowledge can be spread wider in the community.
Our team is also currently working on repairing the CD4 count machine that is in our clinic. When it is functioning properly we will be able to offer free HIV testing to the students at our school as well as to others in the community.
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