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Video: ACET Ukraine youth clubs
15 year old Anya started attending one of ACET Ukraine's youth clubs, after meeting ACET trainers at school where they delivered their Healthy Youth University sessions to the young people.
Hope in the face of desperate circumstances
Anna Strain (International Support Officer) and Sarah Smith (CEO) have recently returned from a trip to visit the Shining Star Project in Zimbabwe, run by our partner The Nehemiah Project. Here, Anna provides a short summary of the trip.
Healthy lifestyles in Ukraine
ACET Ukraine is working in a challenging context, with continued conflict in the east of the country and a strong cultural taboo in regards to talking about sex. This taboo is a legacy of the old Soviet rule when, as one teacher put it, “sex didn’t exist.”
Esteem clubs in Nigeria
Last November, we told you about CEO Sarah Smith’s visit to Nigeria where she delivered our 4 day Esteem relationships and sex education training to our colleagues at ACET Nigeria.
Reaching children marginalized by deafness
ACET DRC’s aim is to improve the sexual and reproductive health of young people, through educational sessions delivered in schools and youth clubs, strengthened by ‘listening centres’ where students can seek further support on personal concerns they cannot discuss in a group.
Belarus: Changing Attitudes
Through their education in schools and colleges, as well as talk shows and club meetings, ACET Belarus teaches young people about relationships and sexual health, HIV prevention, STIs, drugs and alcohol abuse.
Challenging language
In our ‘relationships and consent’ sessions with year 10 or 11, we start off by asking students to write down any words they can think of, that are used today as words for sex.
Our new resources
Your support enables us to develop new resources to strengthen our own education delivery and also to support parents, teachers and youth workers.
Healthy babies
Nireekshana ACET, in India, provided holistic care to 40 more expectant and new mothers in this last year, to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV.
Speaking about sex with respect
With a complex history of civil war and political corruption, it’s unsurprising that gifts we take for granted such as health, education, and safety, are struggles for people living in DR Congo.
Love changes everything
In Zimbabwe, the Shining Star Project’s ministry to sex workers isn’t just about improving sexual health knowledge, it’s also about helping girls and women discover their value and worth.
Shining light on online 'death groups'
VK (formerly VKontakte) is the most used social media networking site among Russian speakers and is particularly popular with young people under the age of 30.