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HIV AIDS awareness programme at Manthuvil Jaffna
Manthuvil
village falls under a ‘high security zone village’. The community consist of about
684 families. They live in fear, depression, and poverty. Further they are deprived
of the simple basics of life. The children have to walk over 30 km to school as
there’s no mode of transportation. As a result very few children attend school and,
instead loiter in the village which leads them to become vulnerable victims of
anti social activities, liquor and drug addicts.
In
order to create a healthy society and build good social values in the village
of Manthuvil an AIDS awareness programme was held on the 19th of May 2008 at
the Manthuvil R.C. school hall for all the youth in Manthuvil. Altogether 102
youth in the age group of 16 – 30 participated from the village.
The
day’s proceedings started with the session on water and sanitation followed by
talks on HIV/AIDS We
know that this programme created a big impact and was a great success as many
participants commented that they greatly benefited from what they learnt at the
programme. “We never knew the gravity of this epidemic, but after this
programme we understand how we should face a situation like this in order to
save our selves and others” said Suganthan.
ADT
is committed to conducting more awareness programmes throughout the country in
order to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS epidemic in Sri Lanka.
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14 June 2008 - Sri
Lanka remains one of the few countries in the region with a low-level in AIDS
cases, with less than 0.1% of the population being affected by the virus. In the
hope of creating awareness to eradicating and preventing the spread of this
disease, ADT continues to reach out to many
people across the country by working closely with the community through local Churches,
government agencies and community leaders. In keeping with this objective an
awareness programme was organized especially for the youth in Manthuvil village
Jaffna.
awareness, liquor/drugs prevention awareness, and employment
resources. All the sessions were conducted by experienced trainers. The topics
were comprehensive and simply explained and were understood by all the
participants. S Kamalraj who attended the seminar mentioned that this programme
gave him a good knowledge and understanding on HIV/AIDS and that it will help him
to safeguard his family by sharing with them the advice he learnt at the
programme.