To prevent people becoming infected. Education is the best form of prevention. Project has finished first year. The classes have been very succesfull, and most of the young people have shown much interest in learning more. Classes are free, manuals are distributed.
Teachers are volunteers.
Project needs to be reinitiated for the next class period which starts on February-March. 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. To improve the living conditions of women and youth in Canada.