By Jan-Peter Kelder | Resource Development Manager
You may know that we teach inmates about the risks of unsafe sex. We have been doing this for over a decade, but the past few months, we couldn't enter prisons, due to Corona. But there is good news: our staff has resumes this project again!
Last year we proudly shared that our prison program has grown from just one prison in 2015, to 7 prisons in 2018. Things haven’t stopped there. The sex-education we conduct is so well received by prisoners and prison-staff, that we now train inmates in 9 different prisons. We see this as a great opportunity to both fight HIV and to spend quality time with people in a very dire situation.
1400 inmates
We are pleased that the prison-directors confirm over and over, that they appreciate our efforts and keep on inviting us back. Our main goals in this program are to prevent young people from getting infected with this HIV-virus and to offer counseling and training to infected people. We now train over 1400 people per year. At least: when there is no Corona.
We are back!
We are thankful that prison staff have invited our staff again to come and train the inmates. Of course we take precautions such as wearing facial masks and we practice social distancing. We are pleased to spend time with the inmates again and share important information with them. Thank you for believing in what we do and supporting our cause!
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