[afro-nets] Abstinence Leadership Training: Request for your input

[Nigeria Abstinence <nabstinencecoalition@yahoo.co.uk>]

Abstinence Leadership Training: Request for your input
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Dear Friends,

The Nigeria Abstinence Coalition is organizing the third of its
annual national abstinence leadership training workshop on 10-12
October 2006 in Lagos. The high point of the technical sessions
holding at the Nigeria Institute of Medical Research, Yaba will
be input by stakeholders into the Coalition's Abstinence
Training/Activity Manual. A core group is already working on a
draft to be improved with contributions by participants at the
workshop expected from different parts of Africa's most populous
nation. They will bring diverse socio-cultural, religious and
educational perspectives to the document.

We request your kind input to this effort, based on your
personal, professional and work experience, or expectations. We
are seeking for methods of packaging and delivering abstinence-
until-marriage messages that have worked which you know or have
been part of. Theoretical insights are you may adduce are also
welcome. We shall appreciate copies of existing Abstinence/
Fidelity curricula, CD-ROMs, Internet resources, etc. which will
be helpful to produce a skills-based, practical manual in a
style that is educative, fun-filled and user-friendly for
adolescents and youth. Full acknowledgement will be made for
your contribution.

The Nigeria Abstinence Coalition is a network of over 100
organizations from across Nigeria that propagate abstinence and
mutual spousal fidelity as a realistic strategy for stemming the
serial epidemics of STIs, HIV/AIDS, teenage pregnancy and
abortion-related deaths in Nigeria. Formed in 2003, member
organizations work to empower and motivate young people to make
the healthiest choice concerning their sexuality: saving sex for
marriage. Experience show that this character-based approach is
feasible; and approved by parents and religions. A recurring
need identified from previous leadership training workshops for
a concise manual to facilitate abstinence and fidelity
interventions among various groups of young people and adults.

Thank you for being so helpful,

Dr. EIB Okechukwu
Medical Advisor/President
Nigeria Abstinence Coalition
P.O. Box 72221, Victoria Island
Lagos, Nigeria
Tel.: +234-803-474-5345
mailto:nabstinencecoalition@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.actionfamily-ng.org