Once upon a time,
in a country far far away from Belgium
somewhere in a small town called Chinhoyi,
before the ST²EEP period
and even before the ZimPATH period,
when Ambrose and Mqapsi were still peer educators,
the idea of a toolkit was born ….
in a country far far away from Belgium
somewhere in a small town called Chinhoyi,
before the ST²EEP period
and even before the ZimPATH period,
when Ambrose and Mqapsi were still peer educators,
the idea of a toolkit was born ….
After a while, all the fourteen teacher education colleges started to
use that material and added their own ideas to it. The material was very useful
and it became a big success! Some years later, there was so much material available
whereby the idea rose to compile this material all together. At the beginning
the plan was still vague, but eventually it became clear that the material
would be compiled in a participatory toolkit, and bit by bit, the toolkit
started to take shape…
Nine months later, the toolkit
was finished. These nine months consisted of editing, more editing, working on
the layout, printing booklets and CDs, ordering boxes, the packaging of
toolkit, etc. Here are some pictures of that part of the process:
The beautiful end product of this process is Nzira Yeupenyu – Indlela Yempilo: A Guide to participatory life skills development:
A national workshop for
college Health and Life Skills Coordinators has been held and soon the toolkit
will be in the colleges equipping the preservice students with the requisite
skills to adopt health promoting behaviours and to teach Health and Life Skills
in Zimbabwean primary and secondary schools. And one day that much sought after
dream of zero new HIV infections will be realised.