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The Communication Initiative
After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at cila.comminitcila.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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Mobilizing Youth for Life

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Mobilizing Youth for Life is a project that aims to scale up well-established HIV-prevention activities for youth in Haiti, Kenya, Mozambique and Rwanda by encouraging abstinence until marriage, fidelity in marriage and everyday healthy choices. The project works through partnerships with churches, schools and community organisations in an effort to establish youth clubs to provide social support.
Communication Strategies
The project targets at-risk children and youth aged between 10 and 24 in the AIDS-affected nations of Haiti, Kenya, Mozambique and Rwanda by using a network of churches, pastors, teachers and trained volunteers. It promotes biblical values in schools and church youth clubs by encouraging teenagers and pre-teenagers to take a stand against pre-marital sex and make healthy choices.
Development Issues
Health, HIV/AIDS, Youth, Children.
Key Points
The project organisers expect 60 percent of youth participants to successfully commit to abstinence, with support from their peers and influential adults, like parents and teachers.
  • In Haiti, anti-AIDS clubs aims to expand into 300 additional churches in the capital Port-au-Prince and the surrounding area.
  • In Kenya, World Relief plans to partner with churches, schools and the Kenyan government to reach potentially 300,000 youth.
  • In Mozambique, where the HIV infection rate allegedly exceeds one-in-four in some areas, 1,200 youth leaders will be trained, aiming to promote abstinence among 500,000 children and teens.
  • In Rwanda, World Relief plans to expand its church mobilisation work for abstinence from three provinces to the entire nation, partnering with dozens of denominations, hundreds of schools and other groups.
Partners

World Relief, USAID

Sources

World Relief website on April 30 2005.