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Community leaders and student peer educators in DR Congo
Despite the barriers of COVID19 restrictions, ACET DRC have been able to innovate and pivot their programmes to ensure that they still reach as many young people as possible.
Sexual health peer educators in Zimbabwe
This year has proved challenging for the Shining Star Project. COVID19 reached Zimbabwe in March 2020 and the government imposed a national lockdown.
RSE educators
We are so grateful to all of you who donated this year!
Adapting to an online world
We may not have been able to deliver many RSE sessions in schools, but our Esteem training has been very busy!
Serving the community during lockdown in Zimbabwe
As COVID-19 and lockdown hit Zimbabwe, the Nehemiah Project became part of the Bulawayo City Health Department’s COVID-19 Risk Communications and Community Engagement Team and began to disseminate lifesaving health information about the virus.
Online in Ukraine
Before lockdown, ACET Ukraine was already active on social media, using it to educate and consult with young people, and to tackle online issues such as suicide forums.
Challenging misinformation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
From its very beginnings, ACET DR Congo has challenged erroneous cultural beliefs about health and wellbeing, by working with church leadership to educate their huge congregations, and to reach out to and care for those living with HIV and AIDS with love and compassion, rather than condemnation a
One-to-one work with young people in Jersey
Founded in 2011, Esteem network member, YouMatter, work with thousands of young people across Jersey every year, helping them respond thoughtfully to the pressures, choices and challenges that they face.
RSE for pupils in specialist provision
Our Esteem team in Southwark provide RSE in a specialist provision school for boys with social, emotional and mental health issues. This alternative educational setting supports young men who have been excluded from mainstream school for a variety of reasons.
Prison work in Belarus
Many of the men and women in the prisons in Belarus have poor knowledge and awareness of HIV and lack the skills necessary to develop positive lifestyle choices, safe behaviours, and healthy relationships.
Taking HIV education to the streets in Zimbabwe
The Shining Star project uses a peer education model to reduce HIV transmission, by educating girls and women engaged in sex work who then share sexual health messages with thousands of their peers.
Prison work in Nigeria
ACET Nigeria is currently forming a partnership with the Nigerian Prisons authorities Plateau State Command, to provide their Esteem programme of sexual and reproductive health education for the inmates of Jos prison.