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-- --------- Rapport technique et financier 2004 Click! ------------- --- Training outreach program in Agbodrafo 2005 (Click) ----------------- |
Nyitoé-Zoukpé, 5th December 2004Donation of medical tools to the Primary Village Health Centre (PHCC). In
October 2004, five volunteers (Charles, Massahoudou, Tevi,
Terry and Fola) from VGlob This PHCC constructed towards the end of the last century, has problems functioning properly today. It lacked staff and basic medical equipement. After the study, the volunteers of VGlob left Nyitoé, very touched and saddened… Upon there return to the base, the volunteers launched a campaign to attract the good will regarding the case of the PHCC. In December we decided to celebrate World Aid’s Day in two villages: Bagbé and Nyitoé-Zoukpé. For this celebration V-Glob offered the PHCC and the Development Committee in the village of Zoukpé-Nyitoe the following:
These donations were made possible thanks to the good will of the students of Aylesbury High School, United Kingdom. Donation of educational supplies on Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Many
actions have been carried out in all the prefectures of Togo in the
framework of the fight against HIV/Aids. But it should be
highlighted that there still exist many communities that have still not
benefited from concrete preventative action against this illness due to
the isolated nature of these areas. This is true of Bagbé, a
village The volunteers of V-Glob, in collaboration with the Minster of Social Affairs, the Protection of Children and the Promotion of Women, had also chosen this isolated village for the celebration of World Aids Day in Togo. Primary School of Bagbé-Route and the college of Bagbé have been in the framework of our preventive HIV/Aids and reproductive health education presentations. Almost the entire village was attended the primary school. During the presentation session the students were shown cultural animations and sketched to illustrate and support the campaign. At the end, the volunteers of V-glob made a donation of 300 exercise books to the children of the primary school, and one box of 2500 small packets of condoms to the Village Development Committee (VDC). The
donation was made possible thanks to two young girls at Aylesbury High
School, United Kingdom. Ellen, Terry and Fola were
the volunteers in the village of Bagbé. Aného, 2nd to 20th November, 2004 Cleaning up of the beach of Aného: Investigation into the need for family latrines. The out-door defecation is still one of the major sanitary problems and causes of environmental pollution in the town Aného. The
search for durable solutions to the problem of waste management led the
young volunteers of V-glob to search for the causes behind out-door
defecation on the beach of Aného and to inform the decision-makers and
partners in development of the real needs of those who The objective of the project is to identify the dwellings without latrines and to determine the number of dwellings in need of family latrines in the nine areas targeted by the study. Well in advance of the decision to execute this investigation, from the 5th to the 19th September of the same year, a survey was carried out by the volunteers of V–Glob. We worked with the district leaders, the mayor and almost all the associations in the town of Aného to discuss the problems of human resources development in the town. It was during this work that we were able to decide together with the community of Aného to undertake the purification of the commune. After the enquiry cited above, two volunteers of V-Gob, Terry and Fola worked on a project to stop the polluting of the beach of Aného. We would like to highlight the fact that the opportunity was offered to us to discover the culture of Aného on the occasion of the traditional celebration which marks the beginning of each New Year for the Gans.
The report of our investigation is available at the town hall of Aného and at V-Glob’s office in Lomé. You can contact terry@vglob.org or djimaleken@yahoo.fr if you would to have a copy. Nyitoe-Zoukpé 12th to 30th October 2004 Reproductive Health Study. In
the framework of the enquiry into the causes behind women’s reluctance
to confront the The objective of this study is to identify the factors which prevent Togolese women from displaying the long-lasting behavioural changes that were hoped for; this is in spite of intense activities of Information, Education and Communication (IEC)/ Communication for the Change of Behaviour (CCB) in Reproductive Health (RH) which were carried ou for this purpose. Given the specific nature of field of study, four domains of study were taken into account. There were as follows:
The
study revealed that the causes or factors that prevent women from
changing their behaviour
(The complete report of the enquiry is available at the V-Glob base or at the University of Lomé, the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences (LSS)/Anthropology or you can contact vglob@yahoo.fr/ adezi@yahoo.fr in order to have a copy. Charles, Massahoudou, Tevi and Fola are the volunteers from V-glob who participated in this study.
Dzolo, 5th to 27th August 2004 Socio-educative, cultural activities and summer schools. The aim of these activities is to bring educational support to adolescents, to motivate the education of young girls in villages, to explore and finally to project new activities in the years to come. Summer SchoolThe summer
schools are held at the College of General Education (CGE) of Dzolo.
It begun Appeal for attention and sketches on HIV and aidsThe sessions of HIV/Aids awareness were organised in parallel with the lessons. To sketches were taught to the students and presented at the end of the course on the 27th august. These sketches and awareness campaigns aimed to reinforce the capabilities of young adolescents from the village to development attitudes likely to help them protect themselves not only from Aids but also from HIV and premature pregnancies which often destroy above all the education of young girls. Football Cup TournamentThe tournament consisted of “small goalposts” which begun on the 9th with groups of eight teams each with eight under seventeen’s, and teams of over fourteen’s. Elevan matches were played overall with one match taking place each day. The matches took place during the afternoons from 3.30pm to 5.30pm on the football field at CGE. On the day of the final, several prizes were given to the finalists, the best goalie and player. The prizes consisted of balls and school equipment. The volunteers of V-Glob who took part in that activity were Friedo, Terry, Massahoudou, Tevi, Charles and Fola.
Djidjolé and Avénou, 7th to 28th May 2004 Preventative Educational HIV and Aids Campaign in three colleges and four hairdressing training centres. The aim of this campaign is to dissipate certain beliefs and myths that surround sexual education and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD’s) and to reinforce prevention. The target of this campaign was the 11-22 age group in the colleges, schools and the hairdressing centres of Djidjolé and Avénou, Lomé. The campaign consisted of a presentation organised in the following order: ·
What is HIV/Aids? · What is the history of VIH/Sida? · Transmission of HIV/Sida · Prevention, use of male and female condoms and screening tests. · Myths and stigmatisation · Four sketches of 5-10 minutes. · Questions, discussions and debate. The sketches only took place in the colleges. French was used in the colleges and Ewe was used in the hairdresser training colleges. In total, three colleges and six hairdresser training centres were targeted as well one awareness campaign for the players on the football field of the Centre for General Education in Djidjolé, with the overall participation of 794 youths.
Methods used 1. Posters with appeals for attention to: · Youth and School Life without Aids · I have chosen my future, I have chosen abstinence · Love does not have to mean sex · Everything we know about Aids… 2. A model wooden penis 3. Male and female condoms 4. Audio cassette of HIV/Aids 5. Leaflet “Sex Wise” 6. Performances: sketches of 5-10 minutes. 7. Human methods: · Kathryn Sisterman, volunteer nurse from V-Glob, the University of Michigan, USA · Friedo Fiaty, volunteer member of V-Glob · Marcel Kwaku, volunteer member of V-Glob · Souleymane Atcha Dedji, volunteer member of V-Glob · Bright Sotia, volunteer member of V-Glob · Lydia Agnan, volunteer of V-Glob · Tevi Lawson, volunteer member of V-Glob · Charles Afoutou, volunteer member of V-Glob · Birenam Amoussi, volunteer member of V-Glob · Massahoudou Atcha Dedji, volunteer member of V-Glob · Fola Lawson, Volunteer member of V-Glob
Suggestion We were asked to put the emphasis on the stigmatisation linked to spread of HIV/Aids, the promotion of free-screening and the fight for a standard price for male comdoms on the markets in Togo. The bosses of the hairdresser centres asked us to come and speak about reproductive health with the apprentices from time to time. The apprentices themselves also asked us to return with other themes if possible.
Lesson LearntDuring the entire campaign we came to realise that all the participants had at least once heard about HIV/Aids. The problem is that prevention is expensive for young people and the screening costs –which vary between 500 and 5000 frs.cfa is too expensive for most apprentices and students. Sokodé, 13th April – 17th May 2004 Exploration of the current environment in which the practice of excision takes place in Sokodé. Towards the end of the 1990s, a law was adopted by the Togolese National Assembly that outlawed the practice of excision (defined as the removal of a section of female genitalia and considered as a form of violence against women) throughout the country. Sokodé is a town situated in the centre of Togo. In this town, excision is practised on over 90% of women. A trip to Sokodé was organised by the volunteers at V-Glob to study the general reaction of the population and, in particular, the reaction of those who carry out this practice in the village given the law. Our researched showed that excision is no longer practised in the town of Sokodé. Nonetheless, it was indicated to us that it is still practised by the Peuls in certains villages further afield.
We would like to take this occasion say thanks once again to the Prefecture of Tchaoudjo, the department of Social Affairs, the association CI-AF/RC and PARENTALWOOD in having facilitated this research. We would also like to thank Mme Malourou Zenabou, Mme Tawani and especially M.Médirou who often accompanied us to visit those who carried out the excision and in the bush. And finally, a big thanks to our host family AGNAN!!!
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supported and participated in a case study into the reasons behind
women’s reluctance to confront the reproductive health awareness
campaigns During this study the opportunity arose to visit the
Primary Health Care Centre (PHCC) in the village.
situated 50km from the Capital of Lomé on route to Kpalimé.
defecate the beach of Aného.
reproductive health awareness campaigns: Case Study Nyitoé-Zoukpé.
V-Glob was approached to undertake this study. A team of five
volunteers from V-Glob were to support and realise this study.
can
be situated at two levels: on one level, the benefits offered by the
personnel of the Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Nyitoé-Zoukpé, and on
the other level, social factors (historical, psycho-cultural,
psycho-social) which exist in the community. These factors are an
obstacle to the programmatic coherence of the actions of IEC/CCB and RH.
with inscriptions 6th August and the classes effectively
begun 9th and finished the 27th. The classes
included students from the 6, 5, 4 and 3 form. The subjects taught
were those often considered most difficult by the students themselves,
such as Maths, Physiques, English and French. Three to four hours
were allotted each week for each subject. Thelessns took place in
the mornings from Monday to Friday, 7.30 too 11.30 with a 30 minute
break. 52 students, among which there were 20 girls, took part.
The course included an offer of books, pens and pencils to encourage the
students from the beginning to the end of the course.
