Advocacy Plan

First, I would like to invite you to visit the website of our project for more information about the my team.

http://giremi.org


MISSION


GI.RE.MI - Gain Information, Reject Misconceptions is a non-profit, youth-led organization that aims to provide young people with necessary information and leadership training to inform them how they can protect themselves from HIV as well as how they can contribute to the fight against HIV/AIDS myths and discrimination.

As a youth-led organization, GIREMI focuses on young people, who are currently at the center of the global AIDS epidemic. According to the statistics, over 50% of PLHIV in Vietnam age 20-29. Besides, young people are particularly vulnerable to HIV infection for social, political, cultural, biological, and economic reasons.

GIREMI is committed to raising the awareness HIV among Vietnamese people and providing youngsters the information and inspiration to take the creative, daring and crucial actions to eradicate HIV stigma and to reduce the transmission rate of HIV among the youth – one of our main targets is young workers in rural and suburban areas.


TENTATIVE PLAN


To make sure the goals are SMART: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-bound, we would like to organize several events, beginning with the smaller one. The project will be held annually to have a lasting impact among the society and make it easier to measure to success of the program.

The project is divided into three phases. Each phase has its particular goals, objectives, activities and indicators of success.


Phase 1: The Workshop – From July 13 to July 17


Target: 30 young people, including PLHIV, high school students or college students from universities, such as Hanoi University of Pharmacy, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi Medical University…Participants are chosen based on their knowledge and passion about HIV issues. Higher preference will be given people living with HIV.


Goals and Objectives:

· Provide 30 young people a venue where they could share their view, ideas and knowledge about HIV with each other and with guest speakers.

· To ESTABLISH A STRONG NETWORK among participants that will enable them to organize future events concerning AIDS and HIV awareness and prevention.

· To train participants in ACTIVIST SKILLS: Creative presentation (through role plays, music, analogy,...), fund raising and PR skills, public speaking skills, effective teamwork, time management, persuasion and debate,...

· Train 30 people to educate young workers in rural/suburban areas (Phase 2)



Main activities:

· Discuss with guest speakers, mentors about HIV issues that participants are passionate about: HIV/AIDS in children, stigma and discrimination, youth vulnerability to HIV….

· Workshops, assignments on skills like PR, fundraising, persuasion, public speaking, which are essential for young people, especially PLHIV who need providing skills to speak out, to eradicate HIV myths and misconceptions.

· Creative activities: Dance, make drama, rap music, compose songs…

· Visit HIV positive orphans


Indicators of success: The completion of participants’ assignments, the success of drama


Phase 2: Educate young workers in rural and suburban areas about safe sex and HIV prevention – August 12 – 14


Target: Young workers in rural/suburban areas, immigrants.



Background research:

This group is highly vulnerable to HIV since they do not have much time, knowledge to gain information about HIV treatment and protection.

My case study: In December 2009, a workshop on safe sex for female workers in Hai That Shoes Company, Hai Phong province was conducted by the company’s Youth Union. A woman said after the workshop: “My life is simple. All that I know is to go to work, receive salary, and come back home. I have no time searching for the information of safe sex and HIV prevention.”

In fact, safe sex education for young workers is still very limited in Vietnam. Besides, the activities are not very interesting. "Finding innovative and engaging ways to promote HIV prevention is important for getting the message across” - Alex


Goals and Objectives:

· Help this vulnerable group of people have a better understanding of safe sex, HIV treatment and prevention

· Provide information for 60 young workers in two different companies.



Main activities:

Use the drama from the workshop, use images, clips… rather than text to educate safe sex.



Indicators of success: Evaluation forms after the workshop, the number of participants



Phase 3: “Our words for Our World - The Video” - October to December


This is a big event to contribute to the World AIDS Day on December 1 and to further promote the against AIDS campaign worldwide. Everybody - students, workers, children...- from everywhere in the world can participate by taking a picture or record a short clip of them with a red piece of paper, in which each person delivers his/ her own message about AIDS to the world. People can also show the creativity and passion by their photos and videos. These photos will be later compiled into an album or video clip and will be shown to everyone.



Goals and Objectives:

· Eradicate stigma and discrimination, misconceptions about HIV issues

· Receive 200 photos and videos from all over the world with different background: students, street adolescents, PLHIV, sex workers,…

· 1000 people join the Facebook Group

· 1000 views on Youtube clip.



Indicators of success: The number of received photos/videos, number of the video’s view