Increase anti-retroviral adherence in Mozambique

Thank you for your continuous support! While our determination to contribute for a generation free of HIV is a huge task that will require everyone you know to get involved, we continuously do our activities because we believe even in small steps our work matters to the lives young boys and girls.

Would you be shocked to hear that the prevalence of HIV in our country is found to be higher amongst people that are informed and well educated? Why, one would wonder. Because we want to hear directly from students, teachers, rectors, psychologists within the university world, and health technicians in and out of the universities, we are going to start our first university campaign at UP; UP stands for Universidade Pedagogica, known for the university that accounts for most students registrations in our country.

We look forward to debating with students who are lucky to benefit from higher education, we will be interacting with student board members, health technicians within the university campus, while addressing the stereotypes, stigma and the tools it must take, for all to understand the imperative need there is, to change current sexual behavior to healthier choices and decisions that will lead the entire nation to healthier lives.

Our fist campaign in universities will start this upcoming October, we expect to interact with approximately twenty (20.000,00) thousand students, where they will be given our platform for their voices to be heard, as we aim to address and encourage this younger generation to get tested, adhere and remain in treatment as a way to take authority and control of own health and future, in what regards HIV.

The last five (5) months, our foundation have visited 26 schools in Maputo and other surrounding cities, were we have implemented interactive and educational games to spread the knowledge about HIV, how it starts, how one is infected and where to get counseling about it.

We have also taken up the initiative of using sports as a mobilizing and communication vehicle to teach sports, the values of it, and life skills associating with teachings about how to face some of the challenges young people face these days.

Sport has given us the platform to encourage exercise in everyone’s lives, healthy competition, discipline and winning attitude, as well as care and respect for own body as a necessary tool to move forward into conquering own dreams. Through sports, we have capacitated school principles, physical education teachers, student/athlete’s from our programs, as well as referees, and have them understand their role to spread the message and educate their own families and friends.

While is encouraging to see the excitement and camaraderie that sports brings, we do not loose focus of our main goal, to encourage behavior that will allow healthier lives, and with your help, we continue to educate through our project because we believe that the success of each young boy and girl in this world of our small part of Africa, Mozambique, starts with having good health and the right knowledge.

We look forward to sharing more about our work now focused on universities, where you will hear stories from the students themselves and some shared through social media and Media. We truly appreciate your donation and involvement.