Amanda Nakalema Milholland has been working with KACCAD since December 2006. She is a Peace Corps health volunteer with a focus on HIV/AIDS. Her work with KACCAD has included provision of HIV/AIDS and life skills education to secondary and vocational students at six schools in
We received a grant for training of 54 teachers from 27 secondary and vocational schools this quarter! We will be carrying out most of this project over the next quarter and a half. In our excitement we have started a bit of the preliminary work now. We are working with Wakiso District to identify schools to work with. The district will also be donating condoms for the four voluntary HIV/AIDS counseling and testing events we will be doing along side the trainings. The Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) events that are to be held in conjunction with the teachers training will target teachers, students and community members. My counterpart Sam Musisi and I will be leading between two and four trainings for four days each. Trainings will be held in April and May. At the end of the trainings teachers will have a through knowledge of HIV/AIDS transmission and prevention and will have practices teaching about HIV/AIDS. We hope to facilitate discussion of how this information can be presented in the classroom and to fellow teachers. Through this program we will give 27 schools resource persons who are knowledgeable about HIV/AIDS. We are really excited about this grant and the work ahead of us.
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