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19/09/2013

"Once upon a time,
in a country far far away from Belgium
somewhere in a small town called Chinhoyi,
before the ST²EEP period
and even before the ZimPATH period,
when Ambrose and Mqapsi were still peer educators,
the idea of a toolkit was born...

In that small town of Chinhoyi, the peer educators wanted to support and inform their peers and other people in the college community on HIV and AIDS and other life skills, they were passionate about it. Together with VVOB, they started to collect and make material on these topics; a lot of creative and innovative ideas popped up!

After a while, all the fourteen teacher education colleges started to use that material and added their own ideas to it. The material was very useful and it became a big success! Some years later, there was so much material available whereby the idea rose to compile this material all together. At the beginning the plan was still vague, but eventually it became clear that the material would be compiled in a participatory toolkit, and bit by bit, the toolkit started to take shape...

About ten months ago, when I started to work for VVOB Zimbabwe, team members were busy working on this toolkit. They were editing texts, writing an introductory guide, contacting artists etc. I was asked to join this 'task team' and felt really honoured. A toolkit about years of work of VVOB and its partners was being made!

Nine months later, the toolkit was finished. These nine months consisted of editing, more editing, working on the layout, printing booklets and CDs, ordering boxes, the packaging of toolkit, etc. Here are some pictures of that part of the process:

The beautiful end product of this process is Nzira Yeupenyu – Indlela Yempilo: A Guide to participatory life skills development:

A national workshop for college Health and Life Skills Coordinators has been held and soon the toolkit will be in the colleges equipping the pre-service students with the requisite skills to adopt health promoting behaviour and to teach Health and Life Skills in Zimbabwean primary and secondary schools. And one day that much sought after dream of zero new HIV infections will be realised."

Van het  blog van Natalie Vanden Eynde, VVOB Zimbabwe (2012-2013)