Educate young Moldovans in personal health

In our recent report we detailed how your support has enabled young people in 3 rural areas of Europe’s poorest nation, Moldova to learn about gender equality. Thank you for being a part of this.

So how did the first workshop at one centre go?

19 adolescents, aged 11-16 years old, took part. They all felt that the interactive nature of the workshop helped them to learn new things about human rights and gender equality. They especially have commented how they liked the easy language used by the Y-Peer trainers.

What was important for them was to be able to freely ask questions, and even more importantly receive answers from the peer mentors, regarding the promotion of men and women in society and the role of media in this regard.

This was the first time the young people have had such an opportunity to have an open discussion about gender equality. As a consequence, some participants were not very open to communicate and to share their opinion, but despite this they participated in all activities during the workshop. It is early days and your support (and maybe more support from your friends and colleagues) will allow for more time for adolescents to get used to the concept of peer-to-peer learning and the topic generally.

More reports on other workshops you are enabling will follow soon.

We are delighted to say that your support has enabled this season of peer-to-peer workshops to take place across Moldova. We want to introduce you to these vitally important sessions.

They had a purpose to provide information about women’s and men’s rights, change attitude towards gender role and increase sympathy among boys and girls. The objectives of the workshop were:

• Participants are informed about the influence of stereotypes in everyone’s life.
• Participants are aware about the importance of respecting the rights of women and men in order to be successful in their personal and professional life. 

Each young participant wrote about the human rights they are aware of and that should be respected by anyone in their society. The workshop included group and individual activities on “gender” and “sex” notions and why stereotypes exists and how we can destroy them.

During the workshop participants discussed about women and men in the media. The most important conclusion that the young people themselves came to was that we all have the same rights whatever our gender. This may sound obvious and straightforward, but what you have done is to open the minds of young people who live in an environment where such values are given little if any airing, and indeed would even be prejudiced against.

We look forward to sharing with you more specifics on these workshops in the coming weeks.

In the meantime, do please share this important project with friends and colleagues – much funding is still required to ensure momentum on peer-to-peer learning is maiantained.