World Foundation Aids Research and Prevention Japan Office are eager to have partnership with schools to give lectures on the theme of "what is really needed for children for AIDS prevention".We think it is important to talk with them and create more opportunities to direct contact in order to reach their heart, rather than just to give them specialized knowledge.Every year, we have fruitful activities through productive discussion with children at elementary schools, junior high schools and high schools as well as their parents.
In Ono-cho, thanks to support of Ono-town and dedicated teachers, every year sixth grade children of two elementary schools visit us to study about AIDS at our place. We had six lectures with Ono-Kita elementary school and two lectures with Ono-Nishi elementary schools. We are looking forward to receiving inquiries from other schools!
From Spring 2007 to end of 2008, we visited four schools in Gifu (Yamagata high school, Kuze high school, Nagamori-Minami Junior high school and Motosu-Shoyo high school) and studied on AIDS with them.It is important to know how to protect ourselves against HIV for any age groups, but especially for children at this age it is essential to cope with this issue as their own immediate problem.
We received a request of lecture for the staff at children's advocates "Jushin-ryo".The children's advocates is a welfare facility for children whose parents cannot or should not raise them at home for various reasons.One of the staff got to know about us through the TV program and visited us since we are in same town.Thanks to her action, we could have an opportunity to do this lecture.
We would like to express our gratitude to all the high school students who sent us their thoughts and impressions. The following are some of the comments we received.