The difference we make
Alongside ACET Ukraine’s bespoke ‘University of Healthy Youth’ programme, delivered to young people in schools and colleges, the team provide parents with training evenings. Here they discuss how to build and strengthen family relationships, and install confidence to approach discussions about relationships and sex.
Last year, 7,780...
The Nehemiah Project promotes positive parenting amongst its peer educators, through home visits and emotional support. Last year, the project also organised a one-day workshop for 40 girls and women engaged in sex work. However, news got around, and 60 parents showed up on the day, meaning 100 children benefited!
The workshop included...
To complement their Kids Clubs and HIV prevention and care activities, ACET Nigeria trained 47 parents and guardians of vulnerable children last year, so that the children could more readily absorb and apply education messages, with support and guidance from their families.
The 5-day training course covered comprehensive childcare (...
ACET Belarus is working to see transformation in prisons. In partnership with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and with the help of volunteers from local church communities, ACET Belarus delivered 76 meetings on sexual health, the implications of drug abuse and traditional family values to 3,660 prisoners in 4 cities in 2018.
As well as...
Nestled in Eastern Europe, the small country of Belarus is very transitional for neighbouring countries where HIV is prevalent, including Russia and Ukraine. Belarus carries a high burden of HIV: since 2010, new HIV infections have increased by 65% and AIDS-related deaths have increased by 13% (UNAIDS). Less than half of the people living with...
15 year old Anya started attending one of ACET Ukraine's youth clubs, after meeting ACET trainers at school where they delivered their Healthy Youth University sessions to the young people.
Anya tells us in the video below about the difference the club and the sessions have made to her and her relationships with her mother and friends....
Anna Strain (International Support Officer) and Sarah Smith (CEO) have recently returned from a trip to visit the Shining Star Project in Zimbabwe, run by our partner The Nehemiah Project. Here, Anna provides a short summary of the trip.
The warm breeze blowing through the dancing bright flowers which line the quiet streets of Bulawayo,...
ACET Ukraine is working in a challenging context, with continued conflict in the east of the country and a strong cultural taboo in regards to talking about sex. This taboo is a legacy of the old Soviet rule when, as one teacher put it, “sex didn’t exist.”
In the first half of the year, 246 trained ACET Ukraine volunteers reached 13,015...