UAA0011 - HIV/AIDS prevention campaign

Dates: 01st July -15th July
Type: Kids / Education placement.
About the Project: Ukraine is the country of Europe with the highest rate of HIV infection spreading. With this workcamp we continue the work we started in 2002. The feedback we got last time inspired us to make a similar camp this year. Many teenagers in Ukraine are attending camps in summer. We want the volunteers – people of approximately same age – to explain the danger of AIDS to them, as well as raise awareness about ways of prevention of getting HIV infected.
Terminal: Kyiv.
Work: The volunteers will be visiting the summer camps in Kyiv region. There they will carry out work on raising awareness of the teenagers by performing a play, prepared by professional stage director. Thus to be expected from volunteers to perform on stage. This moving camp will first start with preparation activities. With the help of the AIDS experts, volunteers will work out the plan of actions – inventing the types of events they can carry out: games, competitions, performances, etc. Volunteers will visit about 6-8 summer camps.
Accommodation & Food: Sport base or on the territory of the visited teenager camps.
Free Time: Excursions in Kyiv, sunbathing, etc.
Project Language: English.
Required Items: Sleeping bag, mat, sportswear, swimming suit, mosquito repellents, and all the stuff you find necessary for organising the work, musical instruments, CDs and whatever you want.
# Volunteers: 15
Notes: MOTIVATION LETTER, performance skills preferable, skills on HIV prevention, possible theatre experience of activities of this kind.