POSITIVE LIVING FINDS A NEW PLACE

For the last 10 years, AIDS Holistics has struggled to promote the Positive Living message in the context of the PNG National HIV/AIDS response.

Life has been tough, particularly with expatriate advisors seeking to destroy the Positive Living message.

We have found difficulty in making ends meet since we had been banned from funding by the United Nations and AusAID. We struggled on with small personal funding from Australia.

But our message has spread with the input of the churches. The founder became involved with the Catholic Family Life Apostolate and would visit schools to talk of HIV/AIDS awareness. There were talks on Radio Maria and Karai FM.

Now the gates of awareness have opened wide. The founder of AIDS Holistics is a registered teacher in Papua New Guinea and been invited by the principal of Juha College in Port Moresby to take the Personal Development component of grades 9 and 10 education.

Now we have been given a small pay that helps cover expenses of AIDS Holistics. It does not make us rich but takes off some of the pressure.

This small NGO is PNG home grown with a strong voice. It has been set up by an expatriate but with several national members and hundreds of supporters.

It was amazing to examine the curriculum of the Personal Development course to find that it is almost identical to the Positive Living program. Please click:


PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR GRADE 10


There is focus on HIV/AIDS, personal growth, peer pressure, relationships, family, family values, domestic violence, nutrition, exercise, health, personal standards, honesty, marriage, parenting, marijuana, homebrew, rights and responsibilities.

The course opened this week with lessons on HIV/AIDS for both grades.  Focus was on infection, mother to child transmission, smoking during pregnancy, ARV, gut attack, circumcision and breast-feeding.

Most of the students are about 17 years old. This Personal Development course will become a key part of their transition to adulthood, marriage and child-bearing.

The Positive Living program has given the founder a deep and comprehensive understanding.

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