Highway to HIV/AIDS Awareness Conference UPDATE
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8th - 12th February, 2006
Tanzania
Dear Friends and Potential Participants,
Please register as Lecturer, Moderator, Performing Artist, Guest
Speaker or other (on the form below), and add your
ideas/comments/criticisms, and return it to us. It would be
helpful to get an outline of your teaching/contribution. The
schedule will be finalized this week, and there are still oppor-
tunities to participate and sponsor this valuable event.
Kind Regards,
Dr. Roland E. Futterer
Leonard Boniface
mailto:the_oro_land@yahoo.de
mailto:bonnylenny@yahoo.com
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Highway to HIV/AIDS Awareness
8-12th February 2006
Marangu, Kilimajaro, Tanzania
http://www.maaango.org/conference.html
THEMES:
- Status of the Epidemic:
Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS, nationally (in Tanzania) and globally
Lecturer: Leonard Boniface
Others:
- Leadership and Ways of Teaching:
What do young people want/have to know? Obstacles and chances
for learning/teaching. Who is a good leader? Qualities. Who is a
good teacher? Qualities. How to teach what? Methods/tools. Con-
ducive circumstances. Creativity. How to reach youth in differ-
ent contexts? Skills. Networking. Ways of organizing groups and
events. What is peer education?
Lecturer/Moderator:
- H/A and Vulnerability:
What does vulnerability mean? Who is vulnerable? Why? Causes?
What to do?
Lecturers/Moderators/Demonstrator:
- Knowledge about Ways of Transmission (ABC and other aspects of
protection)
Lecturers/Discussion Moderator:
- People Living with H/A:
The Problem of Stigma
Lecturers/Moderators: Michael Wanyama
Others:
- H/A, Culture, Environment and Education:
What role do culture, cultural practices, environment and educa-
tion play in the spread of or fight against H/A? Other aspects
and questions?
Lecturer/Discussion Moderator: Dr. Moses Mwemi
Others:
- H/A, Adolescent Sexuality and Reproductive Health:
What is adolescent sexuality, what is reproduction in different
societies (contexts) and what does it mean for young people?
What sexual practices do you find in different cultures? STDs
and HIV/AIDS. What do alternative sexual and reproductive unions
mean for the spread of or the fight against H/A? Family Plan-
ning. Other aspects or questions?
Lecturers/Discussion Moderator:
- H/A and Psychology:
Longing, romantic love, hope, desire, fear, shame, guilt and
other emotional realities in the context of H/A. How to deal
with it?
Lecturer/Discussion Moderator:
- H/A, Sexuality and Spirituality:
Why do we have sex? What is sexuality? What is the purpose of
religion? The gap between sexuality and religion, scientists and
priests, condom use and abstinence... Is it possible to under-
stand and accept others with a different view without thinking
little of them or even condemn them? How to practice mutual un-
derstanding and respect? Can we support each others' work and
thereby the people seeking clarification?
Lecturer/Discussion Moderator: Br.Samuel Mparange, Dr. R.E. Fut-
terer
Others:
- Poverty and H/A:
Income generating activities for communities. Other aspects.
Lecturers/Moderators: Leonard Boniface, Jimmy Ouma
Others:
- Ways/Models for Social Mobilization and Community Empowerment:
Lecturers/Moderators: Jimmy Ouma
Others:
- H/A and the Role of Traditional and Modern medicine:
Lecturers/Moderators:
- Introduction of Creative Arts Communication:
How to improve our artistic tools and general means of informa-
tion/communication/networking/understanding? How to understand
the individual (subjective), the culture (intersubjective), be-
haviour and empirical facts (objective) and social action sys-
tems (objective) Dialogue; Experiences; Analytical tools.
Lecturers/Moderators: Dr. R.E. Futterer, Jimmy Ouma
Others: Emmanuel Akapo, African Arts for Development Initiatives
- Other Themes:
Lecturers/Moderators:
- The Role of Oxfam International Youth Parliament for Social
Change:
Lecturers/Moderators: Leonard Boniface-an Oxfam IYP Action Part-
ner
- Programmes, Future Activities, and Vision:
Teenage Life Programme, Kibera Community Youth Programme, Watu
wa Watu, Mankind Aids Arts Awareness,
Others: ActALIVE
Conference Activities:
Early Morning Meditation (optional/silent/ for all denomina-
tions, religions) at Kinukamori Waterfalls, Warming-ups, Lec-
tures, Videos, Plays, Discussion and Study Groups, Arts Communi-
cation Workshops (Music, Drama, Others), ie "Forest of Hope"-
Gallery, "Global Counselling Video"- Production, "Chagga Mir-
ror"-Documentation, "Video Documentary on HIV/AIDS and Its Im-
pact on Tanzanian Young People", "MDGs" and "Heshima" song, com-
posed by Leonard Boniface.
Short Speeches:
by Dr. Mwemi, Br. Samuel Mparange, Grace. D. Shayo, A .P. Moshi,
R.E. Futterer, Leonard Boniface, others, on these topics:
"Welcome to the Highway to H/A Awareness"; "On Watu Wa Watu"
(local organizing partner of MAAA, and TZ nonprofit); Fear, Com-
mitment; African Youth; MAAA (conference organizer, Mankind AIDS
Arts Awareness); Religion; other topics.
Guest Speeches:
- Reforestation Session (half a day) of Kinukamori Waterfall
Conservation Area with Ficus-seedlings and other trees (each
participant at least one seed/seedling)
- Sensitisation Festival in the centre of Marangu (half a day)
as a "community link" to the conference
- Documentation
- Short visits to historical, cultural and natural sites (walk-
ing distance) in and around Marangu (caves, waterfalls, lakes,
Chagga huts and others)