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HIV and the Community

Young Youth Ambassadors are school-age peer educators who support Youth Ambassadors by facilitating MAD clubs HIV educational and creative workshops four days a week after school. They also get involved in outreach HIV education and awareness initiatives such as weekend camps and schools workshops. We hope that on leaving school, Young Youth Ambassadors may wish become Youth Ambassadors depending on their career goals and personal aspirations. 

My name is Alridge
My name is Andile
My name is Chantelle

I take challenges and I am not afraid to talk to people and I am always honest. If someone asks me about something about HIV I will tell them the right information that I know and if I do not know I will ask. I will search and find out about things I am not sure about. 

Our role is to be responsible I teach other children so that they can get more information… I have been involved since 2004. Because of the Rainbow of Hope I started to know more about HIV and AIDS and learnt how to paint and how to work as a team. It was quite hard work. My dream is to become a Youth Ambassador.

 

My name is Colin

 

I have been involved since 2005. I have enjoyed most the hero booking because it was nice to bring out all your past and your childhood and putting down on paper what you felt when you were little. MADaboutART is a great place. We come here to learn about what we don’t know and empower each other and share knowledge from each other.

 

 

 

My name is Kaya

 

My name is Ebby

 

I am 15. I started in 2003. The reason why I stayed is to make myself a better person and go further in the future and help others. A Young Youth Ambassador is someone that participates and is a role model for others. If the Youth Ambassadors take the next step up then we will take their role. And we need to have the skills they have. Click here to see my hero book

My name is Kenneth

 My name is Joseph

 

My job is learning things and helping others learn also. If people have misunderstandings I help them look at these and maybe get things a little better. I am a good Young Youth Ambassador because I have respect for others and because I can help other people. MADaboutART keeps kids out of the street, they can come here to play and have fun as well as work. Click here to see my hero book

 
 My name is Linden
We need young people - they are the future of tomorrow and the virus is affecting lots of young people. I enjoy when we make art -things like the Rainbow of Hope because the rainbow helps people with HIV get to know the steps they may follow to go further with their lives. I like the art attacks and ice breakers too. 

I have learnt a lot of things about HIV and AIDS and I am ready to teach others.  Here we learn about things that are happening outside and things that are happening in life and it helps you from not doing crime and not getting bored.  It’s also a place where anyone can come at anytime. Everyone is welcome.

 
 
 

A Young Youth Ambassador facilitates sharing information. When you teach someone you tell him or her but when you facilitate it is a different way - your way. I have been here since 2003. My favourite bit has to be the Rainbow of Hope because I learnt a lot of stuff like self confidence and staying focused.

 
 
 
My name is Ntombi

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My name is Reiced

I have been coming to MADaboutART from the start, maybe 2001.  When I first came I did it to make the people that asked us to come feel good if I am honest.  And then I came because MADaboutART taught us a different skill - from art we put our feelings into drawings and paintings and that was a challenge for me and I had interest in it. From then on I came not to satisfy others but for me and it has opened a lot of doors for me. Click here to see my hero book

My name is Olwethu

I am a Young Youth Ambassador… it means I have the knowledge and I have to pass it on to the younger kids and I have to have the confidence to do what I am doing. I enjoy what I am doing and doing it with care. MADaboutART is about working with young kids and supporting people with HIV. It’s about HIV and AIDS and knowing yourself.

 Click here to see my hero book

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

My name is Rochelle
 
 
My name is Patricia

My role here is to giggle to show people what a good place this is. I show children what can be learned and what can be changed and do anything I can to protect the community by telling them what I know about HIV and AIDS. I have been coming here since 2002. First I thought this is a place to experience new things in life and one day I could tell my children I was there at a special time and place and that I learned things in life I did not know before. I know how to depend on myself today and I am thinking that MADaboutART is a part of that. 

Click here to see my hero book

 

 

My name is Warren

 

I am 12 this year on 23 of August… My favourite thing is to learn different kinds of things. I have mostly enjoyed painting and drawing. We learn how to paint and some people do it without thinking… it is fun and relaxing. We need young people to learn and to keep them and us busy learning. And because of Larry I know I want to go out into the community and tell the people what a difference we can make in MADaboutART.

 

Hero Books are reproduced with permission from the MADkids and their parents and guardians.