Youth Against AIDS
A project in the framework of Promoting Development in Europe: Towards a Critical Mass and Beyond - LATVIA
Mission
Youth Against AIDS organises peer education programmes for youth in secondary schools. Our NGO has 10 years experience in leading workshops in schools on HIV/AIDS.
Objectives
- To create a new generation of journalists who could represent human rights and development issues
- To provide a webportal on development issues to young people and a platform for young journalists to publish their articles
Activities
Trainings and workshops
November 2008 - April 2009
Workshop on corruption 29th of NovemberWorkshop on violence against women 13th of December
Workshop on development cooperation and Latvia on 17th of January
Workshop on ethics in writing about developing countries on 7th of February
Workshop on sexuality on 14th of February
Workshop on EU and EU Parliament elections18th of April
We carried out a 3-day training for youth and regular meetings and workshops in Riga on different topics. These meetings and workshops gave participants a general insight into human rights and development, as well as basic knowledge in journalism. We developed an application form for youth, asking them about their motivation and experience. We distributed the application form through different youth webpages, university student councils and personal contacts. YAA conducted ice breaking games and the trainings were carried out by professional journalists. Lolita Luse, who led a journalist school in Balvi region, held a session on how to write news, what the structure of an article is and how to pick a headline, etc. Didzis Melbiksis held a session on journalist ethics. The workshops in Riga were mainly meetings and conversations with journalists and NGO representatives working on similar issues such as corruption.
Webportal
We established jaz.lv where participants from the trainings could publish their articles. On this portal we publish news on development to young people.
Outcome
18 young people participated in our training
20 articles to be published on the webpage https://www.mail.mrgmail.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.jaz.lv/ (in Latvian Jauniesiem Aktualas Zinas - News actual for Youth)
https://www.mail.mrgmail.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.jaz.lv/ (in Latvian Jauniesiem Aktualas Zinas - News actual for Youth)