YAP - 2009

YAP (YOUNG AND POSITIVE)


YAP is focusing on HIV. In future campaigns, the yapping could be on Climate Change, or Literacy, or Unemployment issues etc. etc. – but essentially, this is still about the learners themselves coming up with a language that speaks to them when it comes to these pertinent issues.

I’m even thinking of absolutely funky t-shirts with a print where a girl with a big afro, or a cool rock chick is holding a loud-speaker, and the words that come out of it are: “what is all this yapping about?” or “YaP, YaP, YaP”… or it is words that begin with the letters y and p that the young people can and should identify with; like young, proud, positive, playful and even some Zulu/Sotho words.

There are other reasons around this name – but above just touches on some ideas. For instance, saying I am Young and Positive (in an HIV project, it somewhat addresses the stigma around being positive), without imposing it too much.

By Rose Mokhosi – PROJECT MANAGER

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Organisation:
Create Africa South Trust IT450/02 (www.cas.org.za)

Auditors:
Viljoen and Partners, PO Box 373, Umkomaas, 4170, Mr Viljoen + 27 39 973 2049

Legal Advisor:
Tatham, Wilkes and Ass., Mr. H. Drummond + 27 33 345 3501

Trustees:
Mrs. Kunene, Mrs. Khambule, Mr. Andries Botha
Chairperson: Mr. A.J. Botha (www.andriesbotha.net)

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Project name: YAP (Young and Positive) - HIV Campaign

Project Type:
• 8 module/week programme within schools (with monthly follow-up) focusing on the development a new verbal (print) and visual campaign.
• The establishment in each school of a) YAP membership – comprising of 20 learners and b) YAP committee – 5 learners to inform youth led programmes within schools and in the public, simultaneously informing a new print and media campaign with the Committees from the other schools.

Staff: Co-ordinator: Ms. Rose Mokhosi
Administration and Control – Ms. V. J. Zagel

Development: Commenced: 2006
Languages: English, Zulu

Experience: 2006 Exploratory Phase, 2007 Pilot phase
Also:
Earlier ‘Know Your Body’ Campaign: May 2002 to April 2005– training of approx 7000 individuals. Urban and rural HIV and health literacy

Contact: Ms. V. J. Zagel – Executive Officer - + 27 83 235 0048 Cell, +27 31 332 2970 Office, + 27 31 767 2285 Admin office phone.

Sponsors: In the past the health related programme was sponsored by Friends of Africa (USA), AusAid (Australia), South Africa Development Fund (USA), Association Dessine L’Espoir (France)

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3 PHASES TO ACTUAL PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

i) PHASE 1
• 6 to 8 sessions of 45-min to one hour (eight weeks) with 2 facilitators (with guests from time to time) visit each school
• Optimally their visits would be with groups of 50 Grade 8 and 9 (14 and 15 years old) learners

Objectives
• To establish a core group of 20 students to become members of YAP. This group is necessary for school’s own in-house meetings and planned activities
• Out of this, a YAP committee of 5 would be elected, as point-of-contact and would meet with other schools’ committees and stakeholders.

ii) PHASE 2
• 45-min to an hour visits with facilitators and the YAP members/committees are planned twice a month after the completion of the sessions

Objectives
• To find out how the intervention has influenced the learners’ decisions/plans. If there is any help that can be rendered, the facilitators are there to do so.
• To carry out evaluations/assessments

iii) PHASE3
• With more visits, there will be a quarterly meeting of the YAP committees where Create Africa South invites various leaders within the HIV field to address them, and introduce interventions of a different kind

Objectives
• The YAP committees to effectively learn from each other as the schools would be from vastly differing economic and social backgrounds.
• The committees to meet and discuss joint programmes


And MOST IMPORTANTLY, the learners’ inputs, led by their committees will have been requested from inception of the programme, for the development a completely new visual language for the HIV campaign