HIV/AIDS Awareness presentation LA

We had the opportunity to do a HIV/AIDS awareness presentation for the Los Angeles County Women and Children's centre for HIV and AIDS.  Our audience included paediatricians, medical research staff, care givers etc. We were able to present  the work that we have been doing in South Africa and share information about HIV/AIDS  that is unique to Southern Africa. The  staff were very impressed with our work and the success we are having. We also presented them with the  HIV/AIDS book that we have produced for primary school students which they would like to use for the children in their care center and showed them some clips of the HIV/AIDS dramas that we do in schools. A number of the medical staff would like to come to South Africa to help volunteer with our projects. We were also able to glean valuable information and ideas from their care center.

                             Some of the staff during the round table discussion forum after the presentation

A few of the staff after the presentation

                                                                   Most of our team members

Boys and Girls Club Phoenix Arizona

We phoned the local police station to find out where would be a good place to perform for youth-at-risk, and they recommended the local 'Boys and Girls club'.  This club is a 'safe-place' for youth-at-risk to hang out after school. Just during the short time that we were there, we saw too different teenagers being hand cuffed by the police and taken away in police cars. We were able to do a 40 minute program for the teens and at the end of the 'Everything' music drama, which highlights many of the problems that teenagers face today, a few of the girls in the audience were in tears and were saying things like ' we really get it'. We also talked with them about HIV/AIDS and showed them a short video about our work in Africa. A number of them gave us their email addresses so that we can keep in contact with them.

We are now on our way to LA where we will be doing a HIV/AIDS presentation and a program for a large audience of teens at risk.

Family Africa Youth Mission Arrives in America

The Family Africa Youth Mission arrived in Texas on the 17^th of September. As our team had been apart for 6 weeks, due to three of our team members going ahead to a training camp,  we spent the first two days in rehearsals. Today we did our first program in the states which was very exciting for our team. We performed for the congregation of the chaplain who works in the Juvenile Detention Centers in San Antonio.  This was an important performance for us as it meant the door opening for us to perform for the teenagers in one of the local detention centers when we return to San Antonio in October.  We were very well received. We have found that everyone in Texas is so friendly. We would also like to say thank you to the RC Freedom fellowship for your donation towards our trip. It is gifts like yours that make our work possible.  We are now setting off on a 15 hour drive to Phoenix where we will be doing our next program for youth at risk.