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Peer Education
At the end of the Life Skills Football Training curriculum, facilitators select one boy and one girl from each class who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, and train them to be Peer Educators with an additional 10-hour course. These kids then run a 12-hour Peer Education curriculum with their classmates. This allows them to reinforce the Life Skills lessons and facilitate discussions which can positively influence peer group norms. Outside the classroom, Peer Educators also serve as an approachable front-line source of help for troubled youth who might be too intimidated to go to an authority figure. As with Life Skills Football Training, WhizzKids United Peer Education is a school-based intervention designed to meet the requirements of South Africa's nationwide Life Orientation curriculum at the grade 5 to 7 level.Outcomes:
WhizzKids United Peer Education...
- Gives kids the opportunity to participate actively in their own development
- Allows kids gifted with leadership skills the opportunity to better themselves and their peers by applying those skills
- Allows kids to become comfortable openly discussing sensitive topics related to sexual health, which they might be afraid to discuss with parents, teachers or other authority figures
- Allows kids a forum to come together and rethink unhealthy social norms and stereotypes
- Creates a sense of solidarity amongst youth that they are working together in the mission of living healthy and HIV-free
