Health Programmes

a. Joint YMCA/YWCA initiative project on HIV & AIDS.

This project is implemented in Waterloo and Gloucester and Regent Communities for youths. Peer educators have been trained and provided with manuals for their activities.

b. YMCA HIV/AIDS project in Port Loko.

This is a project on breaking the silence and finding solution to the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Mafoki chiefdom, Port Loko District. The project had the specific objective of informing beneficiaries on HIV/AIDS. Sensitization activities were informed by a survey on knowledge, attitudes and practice carried out in the form of sensitizing activities.

c. Adolescence Reproductive Health, HIV and AIDS Project

The target beneficiaries of this project are 12,500 youths in the Hastings and Lumley communities in the Western Area of Freetown. The peculiarity of this project is that it seeks to engage adults and young people talk sex in their communities.