More than half of all new HIV/AIDS
infections strike people under the age of 25. Girls are hit
harder and younger than boys, and infant and child death rates
have risen sharply. Children and adolescents are at the centre
of the HIV/AIDS crisis, yet they are the ones who offer the
greatest hope for defeating the epidemic.
Many programs offer HIV/AIDS
education, but often the information is not delivered in an
effective manner. Sport offers a unique opportunity to provide
this information. It is non-threatening, age appropriate,
attracts youth, and provides a fun, safe environment where
HIV/AIDS can be openly discussed. <
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UCT working in association with
Pastor William Silwinda
has establish an AIDS/HIV educational program and we are researching
the ability to introduce a sports development program to compliment
his ministry.
Tanzania is one of the countries most severely
affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. <
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Pastor William seen here with the mountain
bike donated by UCT to start the Youth Alert AIDS educational
program at Liberty School.
UCT-YOUTH ALERT was founded
in Malawi initially, within the Nyungwe Karonga District,
located on the shores of Lake Malawi. In this region there
are many fishermen and business men from afar who come to
buy fish. Prostitution is very high especially among young
girls.
Seen here Pastor Lafleur (blue shirt on
the left) our Haiti coordinator and Jenny Tryhane (yellow
shirt on the right) Founder of UCT with the team in Haiti
receiving their footballs, nets, trophies and football kit
all donated by companies in Barbados. We would love to see
this porgram extended into Haiti.
YOUTH ALERT is focusing in reaching all
the youth by all means, establishing a self-help youth programme
linking sports with AIDS prevention, environmental cleanups,
leadership training and other community service activities
The program focusing on educating the youth
about HIV/AIDS through sports activities UCT is seeking
to partner with Kicking
Out AIDS Tanzania to train
Pastor William and another youth within the 'House of
Freedom' to extend the program into and around the Mbeya
area and within the Nyungwe Karonga District, Malawi.
Pastor Lotie and Pastor
William seen here with the mountain bike donated by UCT to
start the Youth Alert AIDS educational program at Liberty
School. Below some of the students.
Vision:
To ensure that the youth especially in
targeted areas such as Nyungwe and Chilumba in Karonga district
succeed in all aspect of Education, we are planning to train
the youth at liberty school so that through them the program
should reach many.
To educate the youth to understand challenges
facing their daily life and how to overcome them.
We will teach them the steps to being
the most powerful human on earth!
1. RESPECT yourself!
2. CHOOSE TO WAIT... You're
so worth it!
3. MAKE POSITIVE CHOICES!
Mission:
To mobilize and involve the youth, using
sports, in the fight against AIDS. To educate the youth in
behavior changing focusing on abstinence prior to marriage
and faithfulness during marriage as the only 100% way to fight
AIDS.
Sport form part of an innovative new approach towards youth and HIV
prevention. Former Director General of the World Health Organization,
Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland describes it in the following terms: “Out
of Africa comes a new method of using sport to unite children and
youth to form an alliance against the ravages of HIV/AIDS. Infected
or not, young people can find strength and information in games and
the joy of sports.”
United Caribbean Trust seeks to help build safer and
stronger communities in partnership with the tourism sector.
Helping with self-development,
educational and enterprise projects seeking to empower disadvantaged
individuals and communities to enable them to contribute to
the viability of the tourism sector and the stability of the
nation.
Seen here Pastor Lotie our Africa Representative
on the shores of Lake Malawi just 400 yards from the land
that has been donated to UCT to build our Malawi office and
Mission
Holiday Village.
Praise be to God.
Congratulations to the Youth
in Action programme which aims at reducing HIV/AIDS infection
rates in Northern, Central and Southern districts of
Malawi and to increase opportunities for out-of-school youth
to play a positive role in society and to boost their self-esteem.
Youth workers and teachers have been provided with training in coaching
for male and female athletics, basketball, football, volleyball,
netball and table tennis.
