Aids Education Follow-up With Youth in Schools

This year another 20 schools have gone through the Aids Education and Awareness program. Nong Bua Pittyakan High School (the school where Br. Ron is teaching English) has over 3,000 students so the follow-up program is taking place on 4 different occasions in order to reach a good number of the students.

Each follow-up session takes place for 2 full days with about 100 students taking part with small and large group discussions - the small group discussions being reported back to the entire group.

One of the main and most effective activities of the follow-up as well as the activities taking place during the 3 day camps is the exchange of water. This is an interaction where each person is given a small glass of water and a saringe - students exchange water with different persons 4 to 5 different times so that at the end of the exercise a chemical is inserted into each persons glass - if the water turns red, it means that the person is HIV. This activity demonstrates clearly and is understood by all that by having sexual contact with multiple partners the HIV germ can be spread to many persons.