Description Each of the ten local YWCAs have formed youth groups and have initiated various youth activities at local levels. There are 241 young members around the country. Every year various youth activities such as seminars, workshops, conferences and youth exchange programs are organized at local and national level for the purpose of youth leadership development within the YWCA movement. The Peer approach to counselling of teens is a method by which a youth group is provided with current information, knowledge, skills and attitudes on adolescent reproductive health and development, in order that they can give support and pass this information on, in their own way, to other young people in and out of school. After their training the young people involved in PACT become Peer Educators.
Advocacy is included in the programme and role play is a popular method used.
The leadership and personal development project for young people works with 50 adolescents divided into two groups meeting twice a week. Sexual Education for Parents is addressed to 70 fathers and mothers and includes AIDS prevention training. Emphasis is placed on self-esteem and leadership. Special focus is placed on overcoming resistance to change, and is particularly aimed at members who have been in the YWCA a long time. Women are taught the importance of nutrition, and child care and to make use of natural resources.