These are the highlights from the last day and includes 12 countries: Bulgaria, China, India, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Nepal, Oman, Sudan, Uzbekistan. :)
Y-PEER Bulgaria conducted a Local Advanced ToT.
This is the third year that in Bulgaria is held Autumn
national school for young people who want to work with their peers most at
risk. The overall objective of the training is to build the capacity of the volunteers
in outreach work, using peer to peer approach. The autumn school empowers us by
giving the possibility to make decisions for ourselves and our ways of working.
For example, one of our greatest successes so far is that we’ve discussed and created
the rules of living and working during the training with full confidence of our
adult mentors and trainers. Some participants say that the school allows
everyone to participate, share and have his or her opinion heard. Others share
that such trainings give them professional growth opportunities and that they
help develop different capabilities. Also the training stimulates us to
continue our work with young people in the future.
We work on different topics (such as communication,
values, tolerance, psychoactive substances, sexually transmitted diseases,
HIV/AIDS, contraception, outreach standards and simulations and etc.) and
discuss cases which help us to learn how to deal with different situations in
our work as volunteers. We also try to understand, communicate and support our
peers at risk. We exchange experiences and knowledge. In the afternoon we work
in groups by cities where each group contains at least two city teams. In these
two sessions we use role playing games and again discuss different themes to
further build our knowledge and skills.
Training was held in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province
and 30 young people attended it. The trainers are university students who have
received our training for trainers in July. The training mainly provided basic
information about YSRH and how young people can get support from the officials.
On the last
day of the 10
DOA, it was decided to give a platform
where youth can write down the message that they want
to highlight and discuss the
issues, concerns they really wish to discuss
next year during the
10 DOA .This was done online through face book mainly by sharing the message
board across the profiles. Thought provoking messages ranging from giving power
to youth, the responsibility of youth to pressures faced by youth were jotted
down by participants.
Iraq
We organized a training workshop for the preparation
of Youth Peer Educators on the topic of sexually transmitted diseases, specifically
AIDS in Baghdad, prepared by the Y-PEER Iraq supported by the United Nations
Fund for Population “UNFPA” and organized by the Association “Together to
protect Human and Environment” , held in Baghdad during the period from September
7 to 12, 2012 and by 36hours of training during which has promoted media about
10 Days of Activism campaign and supported by Y-PEER Iraq!
Graffiti Art
activity (Syrian and Jordanian young
people outside camps / self-expression activity ) This activity came out of the
Y-PEERians and partner activists to open the space for refugees who are not living in
camps and for young people in general to
express the meaning of their rights to them and what messages they want to send to other
stakeholders to fulfill their rights
under the theme of the campaign. It took place in UNFPA premises with participation
from young people aged between 15 – 26, unfortunately we only had 4 Syrian
participants.
The activity took place at The APHIA PLUS grounds
which is a USAID funded project where we conducted a youth forum and crowned
the youth champions as Mr. AND Miss Y-PEER who will be our role models in all
Y-PEER activities in their regions.
IN attendance was an officer from the population and
planning agency, representatives from the ministry of health and staff from the
APHIA project.
The objective was to commission these champions to the
community and delegate their roles as advocacy champions.
FLESH-MOB took place in Bishkek City.
The target groups of the activity were:
• Young
people studying at universities, schools, colleges of.
• Working young
people and street children.
• Disorganized
young people
• And
representative of mass media
The main purpose of the flesh-mob was: attracting
people’s: decision makers’, young people’s, adults’, local and international
NGOs’ attention to the issues of young people on SRHR
Audience: more than 400 people, and most of them were
young people as well as adults
Public discussion and press conference with decision
makers “Macedonia
accomplishment in ICPD’ goals”
YPEER Macedonia closed 10 days of activism with
advocacy initiative, debate and press conference. The highlight of the whole
initiative was the support letter from Macedonian President H.E. Gorge
Ivanov in which he expresses the
importance of youth involvement in to decision making process. Furthermore, we
distributed “The letter to decision makers” to all 120 Members of the
Macedonian Parliament. On the debate YPEER FPs presented 10 days of activism
initiative in Macedonia and rest of the world, Youth Demands for Meaningful
Youth Participation, Comprehensive Sexuality Education and Youth Friendly
Health Services and we inquired policy makers to commit to accomplishment in
ICPD’ goals and Action Plan.
A workshop on “Human Rights Status in Nepal” was
conducted by NEEHD at Career Building International Academy, Pepsicola,
Kathmandu, Nepal.
Among the participants were the students and teachers
and social workers, youth activist. They actively participated in the
interaction program for 2 hours and very enthusiastically shared their ideas
and thoughts regarding the subject matter given in the Nepalese context.
1. Human rights status is believed to be deteriorating
every day in Nepal, the government of Nepal right now is preparing to introduce
a bill that has planned to grant Amnesty to the human rights violators during
the ten year long insurgency in the past. This had really saddened the people
of Nepal as it would set a wrong example and boost the confidence of the
violators in the days to come.
2. The female participants view that they have been
deprived of even their constitutional rights of 33% reservation in all the
state organs. Similarly they complain that they are not able to adopt their
professions freely due to the family, social, religious, cultural and
traditional, restrictions.
3. Due to the caste discrimination in Nepal, so many
so called low caste youths have found themselves unable to develop their
personalities by choosing the profession they like. For example they can’t
start a hotel service in their locality because the so called upper caste
customers do not visit their hotels.
4. As the concept of inclusive democracy is growing
,the different laws regarding giving special reservation has been provided to
the different marginalized and disadvantaged groups .This system has surely
some good aspects, however it has brought frustration among the so called upper
class but poor youths .They think that they have been deprived of their rights
only because they were born in the so called upper caste family.
Y-PEER Oman Joined a Omani Group Called “ Clean Up
Oman “ in The Omani Culture Club , in order to discuss and learn how Important is
for the young people to participate in saving the Environment and How it is
Important to Raise Awareness in Schools For Kids and how can Y-PEER Help in
Rising Awareness for the Youth in School From age 15 to 17.
In the Wrokshop we Discovered that Youth In oman Need
to Be aware and Y-PEER Oman should be more involved in helping them.
Romania
On September 10th, we announced the winner of the 10
Days of Activism Romania photo and drawing online contest. The participants had
to take a photo of themselves or draw a picture with a message that completes
the phrase: “We need sexuality education because…”
The pictures were uploaded on the campaign blog and
received online votes.
The day began with opening Exhibition of the
participating associations and partner ceremony is open to the two formations
in addition to theatrical and singing posts and poetry honoring a number of
contributors to the success of the campaign, and ended the day singing
ceremony.
There is many benefits: raising awareness to young
people about the HIV/AIDS in free space, strengthen cooperation within youth
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in order to bring grass activism to
international attention
The interaction of the audience many topics of young
people's sexual health and the spread of AIDS Promote a culture not to isolate
people with disabilities and people living with HIV Advocate for youth issues and
gain the support of a number of officials and political leaders
Info session was conducted for students from 8 and 9
classes. During the session students get information about 10 DoA Campaign,
Y-PEER Network and basic information about Drug Abuse. At the end of activity
volunteers have distributed leaflets about STI and HIV/AIDS.
On the last day of the campaign 10 days of Activism Blaze Youth Development Organization organized a very interesting activity“What is in Your Mind” at Jinah Hall Kabeer Wala on 10th September 2012 at2 PM to 4 PM. A freedom wall was posted in the hall for youth where they may freely comment about their life. More than 150 youngsters commented on wall and share their views. Young people were feeling free to write their opinion on freedom wall. For example a youngster wrote on the wall that “youth should take practical steps for the spread of knowledge and self-awareness” other comments were:
1. I have right of learning
2. Make your vote powerful for our nation
Mostly youngster knows about their sexual and reproductive Health very first time. They were expecting more activities related to this topic.
