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Y-PEER News Bulletin August-September
Y-PEER News Bulletin August-September
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Y-PEER Armenia has organized several events in August-September period, some of which includes: 
 Youth event for International Day of Youth (12th of August), to empower young people and raise awareness about the achievements and challenges of youth. It incorporated a Youth Expo, Youth Talks, Job Fair for young people looking for a career in ACBA-CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK, as well as performances by a well-known rock bands, where around 200 young people celebrated the IYD. The celebration concluded with emotional and energetic performances by The Beautiful Project, popular Armenian rock band, and DJ Beatman; 
 10 TOTs (Training of Trainers) in several regions. The themes of the trainings were SRHR and Healthy lifestyle, which resulted in 220 young people who are now aware about SRHR and Healthy lifestyle issues and trained and able to share their knowledge and skills with the peers; 
 10 capacity building trainings for Civil Society organizations. (2 of which are planned to be done during the last week of September), resulting in 160 young people being trained about SRHR issues (after the last trainings the number of young people will be about 200), as well as develop their skills for sharing their knowledge by using peer to peer education. 
With the help of Y-PEER Azerbaijan, on May 12th-16th, 2014 Hilton Baku organized Career Week within Careers@Hilton Live: Youth in Hospitality Month. 
On the third day of the Career Week Hilton Baku invited disabled people to the hotel to give them an idea of the work of various departments and roles within them. 
All of them got a chance to try themselves in various job capacities 
while Hilton employees were supervising them. 
Career Week was a unique opportunity to inspire those looking 
for employment about careers in the hospitality industry, and to 
support them by providing guidance on the skills that are vital to 
succeed in the workplace and beyond. 
See the video here:
A year passed from the time when Y-PEER advertizing campaign in Belarus 
started. And now the front man of the music band “Open Space” Vitaly Matievsky 
whose face is on the billboards all over the Belarusian capital tells how and why he became 
a peer educator, what peer education advantages are and whether there is anything 
common between peer education and music. 
– Vitaly, how did you become a trainer? 
Everything started from my cooperation with the UN Population 
Fund when the band supported the project on home violence 
prevention. Afterwards our collaboration grew stronger and the 
UNFPA suggested the band “Open Space” becoming the Y-PEER 
Goodwill Ambassadors in Belarus. We all passed through the peer 
education trainings. That is when I realized the strength of this 
technology and started to develop my peer educator’s skills. That was 
a totally volunteer initiative. 
– How do youngsters see you at the trainings? 
In peer education programmes it is very important to be seen by the training participants 
(these are mostly youth at the age of 15-22) as a peer who can tell something new and 
interesting. They shouldn’t be embarrassed to share their experience or to ask the question 
that can’t be addressed to parents. The issue can be any but the methodology should be 
interesting and amusing. Mostly the topical issues for this age are HIV-prevention, reproductive 
health, psychosexology of relations. Youngsters are usually satisfied and full of impressions. 
– How is peer education connected to your music? 
At the moment I can’t say that my volunteer initiatives are somehow connected to music. 
These are just two spheres that I’m very fond of. 
– Do you get any new information at the trainings? 
Of course. Every training is not a lection. Much time is dedicated to discussions. So every participant has opportunity to tell something from his/her life experience. One of the main advantages of the training is that no one can impose any opinion. There’s space to discuss the issue and to let everyone decide what is true, especially when it comes to interpersonal relations. If the issue is HIV-prevention, the information is given in details but it is understandable and without any pessimism. 
– How do your friends see your peer education activities? 
Positively, as any good initiative should be supported. I think that it is very important to have hobbies. That is not about computer games but it is something that makes your family and society life better. This can be sport, business, art, volunteering, etc.
On 13th September, Y-PEER Bhutan had a sensitization program in Royal Thimphu Collage RTC, together with students, leaders and residents discussing how Y-PEER would be successful by helping students and planning future activities. 
Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ypeerbhutan 
The 3rd national peer education 
training of trainers (TOT) 
Date: 14 - 17th July 
Location: Beijing 
The training is an annual event of Y-PEER China to train and select peer educators throughout China since the first one in Shenzhen back in 2012. This year we invited 63 peer educators all over China including those from remote provinces such as Yunnan and Xinjiang. The training is mainly held by Y-PEER China with the support of China Family Planning Association (CFPA) and UNFPA. 
ToT involved 63 peer educators from 30 universities who applied to SRH program from CYN and CFPA, Y-PEER China members, Ping Hong(CFPA Associated Secretary) Lihe Li and Xiao Liang (CFPA program manager) Dr.jo (UNFPA APRO) Mr Gaoshan Junjian (UNFPA China). The training inspired participant in Guangzhou and Changsha, which announced the establishments of local network later on. 
Training of peer educators 
After attending the 3rd national TOT in Beijing this summer, 
those Guangzhou delegates decided to speed up 
the pace of organizing local network in Guangzhou with the help of local 
Family Planning Association and government. As provincial level training 
was on the agenda, Y-PEER China organized Training of peer educator from 
27-30 August in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. 
Objective of this event was to pave the way for building local 
network and recruit local network volunteers, 
as 32 young leaders from 10 universities in 3 cities 
in Guangdong Province and Guangdong Family Planning Association 
participated. As a result Guangdong Youth Network (GYN) was 
established, as 13 volunteers were recruited in GYN 
for the first time.
[Workshop] of experienced peer educators 
Brief Introduction: The workshop is an assembling of experienced peer educators in Beijing, which 
lasted for 6 hours. The workshop focused on Y-PEER patter peer education 
which is quite innovative for most participants Objective: a. To recruit volunteers for Y-PEER China b. To provide a chance for peer educators in Beijing to exchange experience 
and gains Participants: a. 32 peer educators in Beijing b. Y-PEER China members, CFPA program manager, UNFPA program assistant Outcomes: a. selected peer educators as volunteers of Y-PEER China b. selected peer educators to attend national training to be held in Wuhan 
on 19th September. 
[Online Activity] Comic series about condom-using and dating tips 
Y-PEER China took chance of Chinese Valentine’s Day as the time to put the comic series on Weibo (Chinese Version of Twitter). Valentine’s Day is considered as the high-incidence season of unprotected sex, and Y-PEER China produced a serious of comics to transmit the knowledge of condom-use and dating tips. We applied a topic on Weibo and the topic can be translated to “Love Tips”. 
Outcome: These Comic series on Weibo have achieved 1.955 million page views. 
Y-PEER EGYPT network is an efficient network which spread to 21 cities and contains more than 200 trainer and also more than 65 association and Youth initiative , and this allows them to work in villages and suburbs, In an another hand.. The political circumstances didn't stop us from working in the streets,in fact it made us insist to deliver our messages with new ways and techniques to the largest possible number of individuals especially those who do not have access to that information. Y-PEER EGYPT network depends on the( Entertaining Education) which makes the information more easy to be consumed by participating to get that information. In the recent period Y-PEER Egypt has delivered several trainings in several cities, 
for example, in North Sinai: theater training for the partner associations ,in Menoufia: 
peer educators training, and in Ismailia: training of ( the Higher Committee of Scientific 
Research) team building and setting goals. We also participated on the national 
celeberations of International Youth Day in collaboration with UNFPA Egypt country 
office & we conducted one of the most amazing trainings which was in collaboration 
with the Egyptian ministery of health under the title of ( Health care for the Syrian 
refugees ) as it was targeting one of the most risk groups who are the refugees suffering 
from very challenging conditions on all the levels , psychologically ,physically and socially. 
In the upcoming period, we are having a campaign of Civic Engagement which aim 
at engaging the girls 
especially in upper Egypt 
in the civil society and volunteerism
#Celebrities4YPEER Workshop in Dubai 
HARNESING POTENTIAL OF CELEBRITIES IN 
ADVOCATING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ISSUES, 
WITH PARTICULAR FOCUS ON HIV PREVENTION, 
Dubai, UAE 
The Workshop for celebrities advocating for young people issues took place at 11-12th September in Mövenpick Hotel Ibn Battuta Gate, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 
During two amazing and productive days famous singers, musicians, 
TV stars, bloggers from Egypt, Philistine, Romania, Tunisia, 
Turkey, Macedonia and Morocco had learn how to develop 
powerful and channel relevant messages targeting youth 
issues with particular focus on HIV prevention through 
various social media tools and advocacy. 
One of the most important parts of the Workshop was a session 
on writing a one minute message during an advocacy campaign! 
‘Celebrities4YPEER’ workshop provided celebrities with the right skills to formulate & convey short messages based on given information on topics of HIV/AIDS & STIs through offline & online media channels. 
It takes time to create important and powerful statements, and within the only one minute it is difficult to address important and touchable information which can help young people to deal with their issues. However, our celebrities had a lot of practice to train their skills 
during the Workshop. 
At the second day of the Workshop there was a demonstration of press- 
conference to allow celebrities to experience creating messages in a short 
time and reacting to questions asked about young people in their media 
appearance. 
#Celebrities4YPEER Workshop was supported by Y-PEER International, H&M and UNFPA 
More information about the Celebrities4YPEER you can find using the hashtag #Celebrities4YPEER 
or following the link below: 
https://www.facebook.com/YPEER.Network
Though the very difficult political current situation, 
there are some young people who are struggling to make a change 
in the world they are living . Y-PEER IRAQ youth are – as usual- in 
the front of those youth doing activities and peer education sessions 
to pass the knowledge to their peers. 
During the last period , they held peer education sessions in the 
refugees camps in ERBIL on 7:11 September with the refugees , 
the trainers were Anmar Khaled ( Y-PEER IRAQ FPC ) and Suzan . 
The training was in cooperation with UNFPA IRAQ and START organization. 
In this photo we can see the youth from Jordan attending a peer 
education session about debating skills , this was held on 29th of August 
2014 . This session is very special as we can really look at the real meaning 
of networking , this training was held by collaporation between Y-PEER 
Jordan network , British Council and the Voice of Arab Youth . 
While here in the second picture we can see the opening of a training 
under the title of " Social responsibilities' of the companies " held on 11th 
of September in Slovinia by the trainer Samar Elzakhlol . 
National Forum of Y-PEER activists took place at 22-25th August in 
Ust- Kamenogorsk city, Kazakhstan. In 3 days peer-educators together 
with focal-points had a chance to discuss the main issues and struggles of 
the Network, find solutions and create action plans for each region, revise 
the ways of communication. Y-PEER in Kazakhstan actively working in four 
different regions: Almaty, Chimkent, Ust-Kamenogorsk and Astana by forces of volunteers from different youth organizations. However, during the Forum they decided to gather their forces, exchange the experiences and lessons learned and communicate better for more effective networking. The Forum was supported by UNFPA. 
For more information please follow the link below: 
http://bit.ly/1rntxCd
Mombasa marking International Youth Day 2014 
International Youth Day, which is marked every 12th of August, 
attracted a lot of youths from different youth groups, Community 
Base Organisations (CBOs) and NGOs in Mombasa. Youths had a 
procession in the streets from treasury square garden to Mombasa 
stadium to see the day successful 
This year’s theme was “Youth and mental health”,due to the high 
Number of youth with mental health issues from various regions of 
country, experiencing stigma and discrimination from the society 
forgetting that they can live healthy lives without being stigmatized. 
Speaking during the event, Hon. Senator Hassan Omar Sarai of 
Mombasa County considered himself as a role model on how he 
became successful at a very young age, as the chairman of Kenya 
National Commission of Human Rights (KNHCR), lawyer and human rights 
activist and expected fellow youth to learn from him. Furthermore, he urged 
the youths to stop immoral behaviors that affect their physical and mental health and always 
follow procedures whenever they want to articulate their issues or grievances. 
Hon. Senator Hassan Omar Sarai of Mombasa county addressing youths during IYD 2014 (photo courtesy of hamadi kachwele) 
However, youth representatives from Mombasa Activista, Action Aid Platform, 
blamed the organizers of the event for not addressing issues on IYD theme and instead leaders from National and county government focusing more on politics and not giving youths a chance to articulate their problems on subject matter or given an opportunity to interact, share ideas as leaders listened to their problems through youth leaders. 
Global dialogue Ceremony Kenya 
The event which took place on 12th August brought together CSOs 
from across Kenya and deliberated on matters affecting youth. 
The education sector, religion and the society being conservative hinders 
a lot in sexual education that leaves a lot unspoken,despite the young 
people’s effort urge for this information. 
Building a conducive environment for both parents and children to discuss sexuality issues 
is seen awkward as most parents do not open up. Parents, teachers and children should all play 
their parts to share sex education and children should demand for more information.
International Youth Week 2014 was launched at 12th August in the 
Ministry of labor, migration and youth of Kyrgyzstan with a key message 
“I am a human! Mental health is a right of everyone!” 
The main goal of the week is decreasing cases of stigma and discrimination 
of young people with mental disorders trough informational and educational 
ampaigns. As one of the organizers of Youth week Y-PEER Kyrgyzstan together 
with NGO “Kyrgyz Indigo” conducted several interactive events for girls 
and women from psychological boarding of Jayil district, such as Forum- 
theater play, dancing classes and different games. In addition, there was 
a football tournament held to support young people with 
mental disorders. Tournament was sponsored by the 
commercial company “Kumtor” and organized by UNFPA and 8 football 
teams were represented by international agencies, NGOs and private companies. 
After very productive August Y-PEER volunteers continued their activities, and 
at the first week of September they have launched new initiative in the framework 
of “Youth for peaceful changes” project, supported by UNFPA. There were several meetings and surveys organized in State University of Technologies, where students shared their opinions about gender issues and violence against women. 
For more information, please follow the links below: 
http://bit.ly/Y720sV 
http://on.fb.me/1veYGZa 
All Y-PEERians were very active on 12th of August, to mark the International Youth 
Day 2014 Mental Health Matters. Here is some good news about, how Y-PEER 
Moldova celebrated the International Youth Day: 
Y-PEER members participated in an out-door press-conference organized by 
Ministry of Youth and Sport and National Council of Youth. 
The press conference ended The National Campaign „Investing in Youth 
Health which was implemented all around the country starting with July 11 till 
August 12, 2014. 
The National Campaign „Investing in Youth Health”, Republic of Moldova, including Transnistrian region gathered a range of initiatives along with awareness–raising activities of the peer-to-peer educators 
Y-PEER in Nisporeni, Orhei, Ialoveni summer camps, flash-mob organized by the 
Youth Media Center with the theme “Healthy T-Shirt”, visits to Youth Friendly 
Health Centers, discussions with volunteers in order to identify creative 
message in promoting the healthcare services.
As a part of the Campaign, Moldova supported the #healthyselfie global initiative where young people, decision-makers and general public promoted the healthy lifestyle on the social media. The results of the Campaign were presented in the framework of the press-conference organized on the occasion of the International Youth Day.After the press-conference Y-PEER Moldova played 
a football match with representatives of Ministry of Youth and Sport 
and representatives of National Council of Youth. Unfortunately the Y-PEER team did not become winners, but they will try harder next year. The same day, 25 Y-PEER leaders participated in an 
advocacy workshop, where elaborated an advocacy action plan for 
Comprehensive Sexual Education in schools. During the sessions participants 
learnt more about stakeholders and ways to approach them and evaluated the 
network capacity for advocacy. Y-PEER Moldova intends to advocate for 
Comprehensive Sexual Education in the upcoming years. 
1st Saipal Inter College Futsal Cup To End #VAW and Girls "1st Inter College Futsal Cup was organized by Saipal college, Youth For Youth, Study Plus and other partner organisation from 3rd-5th September. 16 Teams from Different Colleges of Kathmandu Valley took part in the event with more than 1500 direct audience enjoyed the game as well as committed to responsible to Fight against any forms of Violence against women and Girls . Players and Audience among which majority were boys share that sports can be one of the area from where the #VAW message can be spread to all generations . Y-PEER Nepal and #UNiTECampaign was proud to be part of it . Game Coordination & Image Credits:- Roshan Chettri & Binod Chhetri . 
A friendly futsal match organized in Kathmandu on August 8 ahead of International Youth Day 2014 (Aug 12). FNJ emerged victorious among 8 teams: Mental Health Network, Ministry of Youth and Sports, youth alliance of 10 political parties, Scouts,youth organizations, UN agencies and Y-PEER. A big thank you to all who participated in the event. 'Mental Health Matters' is the theme of the Day this year. Youth with mental 
health conditions are often subject to stigma and discrimination. 
Efforts are needed to overcome this stigma and discrimination to 
ensure that young people with mental health conditions can lead full and healthy lives free of isolation and unnecessary shame, and that they openly seek the services and support they need.
Y-PEER Nepal is developing messages on End Violenece against women and girls for Orange Campaign to be disseminated widely in Sunsari, Saptari and Rautahat. Now Lets make it interesting for you...!!! Here's A CONTEST Develop messages on " End Violence Against Women and Girls" That can be on English or Nepali Target group : 12-15 yrs adolescents Teachers and Parents It will be best if you make the messages context specific to the district. or you can make it general as well. Top 15 messages will be awarded with interesting goodies from Y-PEER and UNFPA Nepal. Hurry up ..!!! Deadline is 24th September 2014 Inbox us or email the message on info@ypeernepal.org / nirmala@ypeernepal.org 
See the link for details on previous orange campaign: http://on.fb.me/1oirw5T
UNFPA, together with the ministry of health of Sri Lanka organized a multi stakeholder meeting to finalize the first National policy and strategy of health of young persons,the main goal of the meeting being mainstreaming concerns 
of health for young people and to improve their health. Y-PEER Sri Lanka Focal Points will be involved in the implementation process to make it successful. Source: https://www.facebook.com/ypeer.srilanka 
“Taekwondo unites people in promoting gender equality!” 
National Taekwondo and Kickboxing Federation (NTKF) of Tajikistan strengthens its initiatives within the UN Secretary General’s campaign “UNiTE to End Violence against Women” by involving 
athletes, leaders, boys and girls to promotion of gender equality activities. 
Hence, the major international sports event - the 11th Junior and 6th 
Veteran ITF Taekwondo World Championships took place in Tajikistan in 
early August and was used as a great opportunity to spread the messages 
about gender equality, youth empowerment and healthy lifestyle. Notably, 
Tajikistan for the first time hosted such a high level sport event which gathered more than 700 representatives and athletes from 52 countries. 
Thanks to the longstanding extensive advocacy and activism of NTKF all events were conducted under the motto “Say NO to gender violence”. Remarkably, NTKF has been collaborating with the UNCT in Tajikistan and UNFPA in particular on the issues of gender equality and youth since 2008. Prior to the championship, volunteers of the national Y-PEER network in Tajikistan and National Volunteers’ Association learnt basics of teamwork and how to resolve conflict situations. 
NTKF athletes participated the training supported by UNFPA on Reproductive Health, Gender discrimination; Gender based violence, promotion of positive male role models among men and boys, advocacy for social mobilization of communities and other relevant topics. 
International Youth Day Celebration in Dushanbe 
This year the IYD commemoration in Tajikistan was fully led by young people and consisted of two events: 
- cultural event for youth and official event for the public and third traditional annual fair under the motto “Volunteerism as career ladder”. Both events were led by Y-PEER Tajikistan on August 10-12, where young people demonstrated their skills and knowledge, conducted information sessions on mental health and SRH issues, organized flash-mobs, discussion 
clubs and master- classes.
The eents were organized with support of WHO, UNV, UNHCR, UNAIDS, IOM, UNFPA, Serena Dushanbe Hotel, VSO, Ismaili Center of Dushanbe and other national partners. IYD commemoration was fully supported by the Committee of Youth, Sports and Tourism under the Government of Tajikistan. For more information, please visit: http://on.fb.me/1qwGmVH 
As a part of International Youth Day Celebration UNFPA Uzbekistan together with PEER Educational Recourse initiated the “Orange Selfie” Campaign. A lot of young people took part in the Campaign posting their selfies in Facebook with the message: “I am for investments in youth!”. The winners were announced on the official UNFPA’s page and got the souvenirs from organizers. Beside this, Activists of youth networks “Healthy Youth” and 
“Diligent Youth” supported by UNFPA and Women’s Committee 
have come up with a number of activities to make young 
people’s voices heard.The celebrations included annual 
awarding ceremony for most active and talented youth, and a 
charity concert by local groups. In particular, most active 
representatives of “Diligent Youth” network from the country’s 
11 regions were awarded, as well as girls who demonstrated good results in sports competitions held with support of Women’s Committee. Other partners working in the area of youth involvement also took part in the day’s events. In particular, UNDP’s “Social Innovations and Volunteerism in Uzbekistan” project has presented its initiatives aimed at encouraging young people’s participation in socio-economic development of the country. 
UNFPA and Women’s Committee have been working together throughout the years, 
on promoting healthy lifestyle among the young people in Uzbekistan. 
Both partners share similar visions on strengthening the rights of young people 
and enhancing their potential to increase their role in society. 
After the colorful celebration of Youth Day two National Trainings (TBT and 
ToT) for the first time took place in Khiva and Andijan cities in August – 
September 2014. Young people had a chance to learn about HIV/STI 
prevention, successful preparation for trainings, theatre methods in education. 
However they even made a short video-clip “Happy Khiva” as a part of global “Happy” campaign. Both trainings were supported by UNFPA and Women’s Committee of Uzbekistan. 
(On the photo: Nigina Kadirova, Doston Kholosboev, Feruz Rustamov, Sevara Khamidova - the winners of Orange Selfie Contest) 
More information you can find here: 
https://www.facebook.com/SoglomYoshlar?fref=ts 
https://www.facebook.com/UNFPA.Uzbekistan?fref=ts 
http://unfpa.uz/en/news/2014/318/
http:// bit.ly/1qZwTvn
Find out more about PETRI core team here: 
http://petri.ncpha.government.bg/team/main/ 
More in the upcoming edition.
Y-PEER News Bulletin August-September
Y-PEER News Bulletin August-September
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Y-PEER News Bulletin August-September

  • 4. Y-PEER Armenia has organized several events in August-September period, some of which includes:  Youth event for International Day of Youth (12th of August), to empower young people and raise awareness about the achievements and challenges of youth. It incorporated a Youth Expo, Youth Talks, Job Fair for young people looking for a career in ACBA-CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK, as well as performances by a well-known rock bands, where around 200 young people celebrated the IYD. The celebration concluded with emotional and energetic performances by The Beautiful Project, popular Armenian rock band, and DJ Beatman;  10 TOTs (Training of Trainers) in several regions. The themes of the trainings were SRHR and Healthy lifestyle, which resulted in 220 young people who are now aware about SRHR and Healthy lifestyle issues and trained and able to share their knowledge and skills with the peers;  10 capacity building trainings for Civil Society organizations. (2 of which are planned to be done during the last week of September), resulting in 160 young people being trained about SRHR issues (after the last trainings the number of young people will be about 200), as well as develop their skills for sharing their knowledge by using peer to peer education. With the help of Y-PEER Azerbaijan, on May 12th-16th, 2014 Hilton Baku organized Career Week within Careers@Hilton Live: Youth in Hospitality Month. On the third day of the Career Week Hilton Baku invited disabled people to the hotel to give them an idea of the work of various departments and roles within them. All of them got a chance to try themselves in various job capacities while Hilton employees were supervising them. Career Week was a unique opportunity to inspire those looking for employment about careers in the hospitality industry, and to support them by providing guidance on the skills that are vital to succeed in the workplace and beyond. See the video here:
  • 5. A year passed from the time when Y-PEER advertizing campaign in Belarus started. And now the front man of the music band “Open Space” Vitaly Matievsky whose face is on the billboards all over the Belarusian capital tells how and why he became a peer educator, what peer education advantages are and whether there is anything common between peer education and music. – Vitaly, how did you become a trainer? Everything started from my cooperation with the UN Population Fund when the band supported the project on home violence prevention. Afterwards our collaboration grew stronger and the UNFPA suggested the band “Open Space” becoming the Y-PEER Goodwill Ambassadors in Belarus. We all passed through the peer education trainings. That is when I realized the strength of this technology and started to develop my peer educator’s skills. That was a totally volunteer initiative. – How do youngsters see you at the trainings? In peer education programmes it is very important to be seen by the training participants (these are mostly youth at the age of 15-22) as a peer who can tell something new and interesting. They shouldn’t be embarrassed to share their experience or to ask the question that can’t be addressed to parents. The issue can be any but the methodology should be interesting and amusing. Mostly the topical issues for this age are HIV-prevention, reproductive health, psychosexology of relations. Youngsters are usually satisfied and full of impressions. – How is peer education connected to your music? At the moment I can’t say that my volunteer initiatives are somehow connected to music. These are just two spheres that I’m very fond of. – Do you get any new information at the trainings? Of course. Every training is not a lection. Much time is dedicated to discussions. So every participant has opportunity to tell something from his/her life experience. One of the main advantages of the training is that no one can impose any opinion. There’s space to discuss the issue and to let everyone decide what is true, especially when it comes to interpersonal relations. If the issue is HIV-prevention, the information is given in details but it is understandable and without any pessimism. – How do your friends see your peer education activities? Positively, as any good initiative should be supported. I think that it is very important to have hobbies. That is not about computer games but it is something that makes your family and society life better. This can be sport, business, art, volunteering, etc.
  • 6. On 13th September, Y-PEER Bhutan had a sensitization program in Royal Thimphu Collage RTC, together with students, leaders and residents discussing how Y-PEER would be successful by helping students and planning future activities. Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ypeerbhutan The 3rd national peer education training of trainers (TOT) Date: 14 - 17th July Location: Beijing The training is an annual event of Y-PEER China to train and select peer educators throughout China since the first one in Shenzhen back in 2012. This year we invited 63 peer educators all over China including those from remote provinces such as Yunnan and Xinjiang. The training is mainly held by Y-PEER China with the support of China Family Planning Association (CFPA) and UNFPA. ToT involved 63 peer educators from 30 universities who applied to SRH program from CYN and CFPA, Y-PEER China members, Ping Hong(CFPA Associated Secretary) Lihe Li and Xiao Liang (CFPA program manager) Dr.jo (UNFPA APRO) Mr Gaoshan Junjian (UNFPA China). The training inspired participant in Guangzhou and Changsha, which announced the establishments of local network later on. Training of peer educators After attending the 3rd national TOT in Beijing this summer, those Guangzhou delegates decided to speed up the pace of organizing local network in Guangzhou with the help of local Family Planning Association and government. As provincial level training was on the agenda, Y-PEER China organized Training of peer educator from 27-30 August in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. Objective of this event was to pave the way for building local network and recruit local network volunteers, as 32 young leaders from 10 universities in 3 cities in Guangdong Province and Guangdong Family Planning Association participated. As a result Guangdong Youth Network (GYN) was established, as 13 volunteers were recruited in GYN for the first time.
  • 7. [Workshop] of experienced peer educators Brief Introduction: The workshop is an assembling of experienced peer educators in Beijing, which lasted for 6 hours. The workshop focused on Y-PEER patter peer education which is quite innovative for most participants Objective: a. To recruit volunteers for Y-PEER China b. To provide a chance for peer educators in Beijing to exchange experience and gains Participants: a. 32 peer educators in Beijing b. Y-PEER China members, CFPA program manager, UNFPA program assistant Outcomes: a. selected peer educators as volunteers of Y-PEER China b. selected peer educators to attend national training to be held in Wuhan on 19th September. [Online Activity] Comic series about condom-using and dating tips Y-PEER China took chance of Chinese Valentine’s Day as the time to put the comic series on Weibo (Chinese Version of Twitter). Valentine’s Day is considered as the high-incidence season of unprotected sex, and Y-PEER China produced a serious of comics to transmit the knowledge of condom-use and dating tips. We applied a topic on Weibo and the topic can be translated to “Love Tips”. Outcome: These Comic series on Weibo have achieved 1.955 million page views. Y-PEER EGYPT network is an efficient network which spread to 21 cities and contains more than 200 trainer and also more than 65 association and Youth initiative , and this allows them to work in villages and suburbs, In an another hand.. The political circumstances didn't stop us from working in the streets,in fact it made us insist to deliver our messages with new ways and techniques to the largest possible number of individuals especially those who do not have access to that information. Y-PEER EGYPT network depends on the( Entertaining Education) which makes the information more easy to be consumed by participating to get that information. In the recent period Y-PEER Egypt has delivered several trainings in several cities, for example, in North Sinai: theater training for the partner associations ,in Menoufia: peer educators training, and in Ismailia: training of ( the Higher Committee of Scientific Research) team building and setting goals. We also participated on the national celeberations of International Youth Day in collaboration with UNFPA Egypt country office & we conducted one of the most amazing trainings which was in collaboration with the Egyptian ministery of health under the title of ( Health care for the Syrian refugees ) as it was targeting one of the most risk groups who are the refugees suffering from very challenging conditions on all the levels , psychologically ,physically and socially. In the upcoming period, we are having a campaign of Civic Engagement which aim at engaging the girls especially in upper Egypt in the civil society and volunteerism
  • 8. #Celebrities4YPEER Workshop in Dubai HARNESING POTENTIAL OF CELEBRITIES IN ADVOCATING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ISSUES, WITH PARTICULAR FOCUS ON HIV PREVENTION, Dubai, UAE The Workshop for celebrities advocating for young people issues took place at 11-12th September in Mövenpick Hotel Ibn Battuta Gate, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. During two amazing and productive days famous singers, musicians, TV stars, bloggers from Egypt, Philistine, Romania, Tunisia, Turkey, Macedonia and Morocco had learn how to develop powerful and channel relevant messages targeting youth issues with particular focus on HIV prevention through various social media tools and advocacy. One of the most important parts of the Workshop was a session on writing a one minute message during an advocacy campaign! ‘Celebrities4YPEER’ workshop provided celebrities with the right skills to formulate & convey short messages based on given information on topics of HIV/AIDS & STIs through offline & online media channels. It takes time to create important and powerful statements, and within the only one minute it is difficult to address important and touchable information which can help young people to deal with their issues. However, our celebrities had a lot of practice to train their skills during the Workshop. At the second day of the Workshop there was a demonstration of press- conference to allow celebrities to experience creating messages in a short time and reacting to questions asked about young people in their media appearance. #Celebrities4YPEER Workshop was supported by Y-PEER International, H&M and UNFPA More information about the Celebrities4YPEER you can find using the hashtag #Celebrities4YPEER or following the link below: https://www.facebook.com/YPEER.Network
  • 9. Though the very difficult political current situation, there are some young people who are struggling to make a change in the world they are living . Y-PEER IRAQ youth are – as usual- in the front of those youth doing activities and peer education sessions to pass the knowledge to their peers. During the last period , they held peer education sessions in the refugees camps in ERBIL on 7:11 September with the refugees , the trainers were Anmar Khaled ( Y-PEER IRAQ FPC ) and Suzan . The training was in cooperation with UNFPA IRAQ and START organization. In this photo we can see the youth from Jordan attending a peer education session about debating skills , this was held on 29th of August 2014 . This session is very special as we can really look at the real meaning of networking , this training was held by collaporation between Y-PEER Jordan network , British Council and the Voice of Arab Youth . While here in the second picture we can see the opening of a training under the title of " Social responsibilities' of the companies " held on 11th of September in Slovinia by the trainer Samar Elzakhlol . National Forum of Y-PEER activists took place at 22-25th August in Ust- Kamenogorsk city, Kazakhstan. In 3 days peer-educators together with focal-points had a chance to discuss the main issues and struggles of the Network, find solutions and create action plans for each region, revise the ways of communication. Y-PEER in Kazakhstan actively working in four different regions: Almaty, Chimkent, Ust-Kamenogorsk and Astana by forces of volunteers from different youth organizations. However, during the Forum they decided to gather their forces, exchange the experiences and lessons learned and communicate better for more effective networking. The Forum was supported by UNFPA. For more information please follow the link below: http://bit.ly/1rntxCd
  • 10. Mombasa marking International Youth Day 2014 International Youth Day, which is marked every 12th of August, attracted a lot of youths from different youth groups, Community Base Organisations (CBOs) and NGOs in Mombasa. Youths had a procession in the streets from treasury square garden to Mombasa stadium to see the day successful This year’s theme was “Youth and mental health”,due to the high Number of youth with mental health issues from various regions of country, experiencing stigma and discrimination from the society forgetting that they can live healthy lives without being stigmatized. Speaking during the event, Hon. Senator Hassan Omar Sarai of Mombasa County considered himself as a role model on how he became successful at a very young age, as the chairman of Kenya National Commission of Human Rights (KNHCR), lawyer and human rights activist and expected fellow youth to learn from him. Furthermore, he urged the youths to stop immoral behaviors that affect their physical and mental health and always follow procedures whenever they want to articulate their issues or grievances. Hon. Senator Hassan Omar Sarai of Mombasa county addressing youths during IYD 2014 (photo courtesy of hamadi kachwele) However, youth representatives from Mombasa Activista, Action Aid Platform, blamed the organizers of the event for not addressing issues on IYD theme and instead leaders from National and county government focusing more on politics and not giving youths a chance to articulate their problems on subject matter or given an opportunity to interact, share ideas as leaders listened to their problems through youth leaders. Global dialogue Ceremony Kenya The event which took place on 12th August brought together CSOs from across Kenya and deliberated on matters affecting youth. The education sector, religion and the society being conservative hinders a lot in sexual education that leaves a lot unspoken,despite the young people’s effort urge for this information. Building a conducive environment for both parents and children to discuss sexuality issues is seen awkward as most parents do not open up. Parents, teachers and children should all play their parts to share sex education and children should demand for more information.
  • 11. International Youth Week 2014 was launched at 12th August in the Ministry of labor, migration and youth of Kyrgyzstan with a key message “I am a human! Mental health is a right of everyone!” The main goal of the week is decreasing cases of stigma and discrimination of young people with mental disorders trough informational and educational ampaigns. As one of the organizers of Youth week Y-PEER Kyrgyzstan together with NGO “Kyrgyz Indigo” conducted several interactive events for girls and women from psychological boarding of Jayil district, such as Forum- theater play, dancing classes and different games. In addition, there was a football tournament held to support young people with mental disorders. Tournament was sponsored by the commercial company “Kumtor” and organized by UNFPA and 8 football teams were represented by international agencies, NGOs and private companies. After very productive August Y-PEER volunteers continued their activities, and at the first week of September they have launched new initiative in the framework of “Youth for peaceful changes” project, supported by UNFPA. There were several meetings and surveys organized in State University of Technologies, where students shared their opinions about gender issues and violence against women. For more information, please follow the links below: http://bit.ly/Y720sV http://on.fb.me/1veYGZa All Y-PEERians were very active on 12th of August, to mark the International Youth Day 2014 Mental Health Matters. Here is some good news about, how Y-PEER Moldova celebrated the International Youth Day: Y-PEER members participated in an out-door press-conference organized by Ministry of Youth and Sport and National Council of Youth. The press conference ended The National Campaign „Investing in Youth Health which was implemented all around the country starting with July 11 till August 12, 2014. The National Campaign „Investing in Youth Health”, Republic of Moldova, including Transnistrian region gathered a range of initiatives along with awareness–raising activities of the peer-to-peer educators Y-PEER in Nisporeni, Orhei, Ialoveni summer camps, flash-mob organized by the Youth Media Center with the theme “Healthy T-Shirt”, visits to Youth Friendly Health Centers, discussions with volunteers in order to identify creative message in promoting the healthcare services.
  • 12. As a part of the Campaign, Moldova supported the #healthyselfie global initiative where young people, decision-makers and general public promoted the healthy lifestyle on the social media. The results of the Campaign were presented in the framework of the press-conference organized on the occasion of the International Youth Day.After the press-conference Y-PEER Moldova played a football match with representatives of Ministry of Youth and Sport and representatives of National Council of Youth. Unfortunately the Y-PEER team did not become winners, but they will try harder next year. The same day, 25 Y-PEER leaders participated in an advocacy workshop, where elaborated an advocacy action plan for Comprehensive Sexual Education in schools. During the sessions participants learnt more about stakeholders and ways to approach them and evaluated the network capacity for advocacy. Y-PEER Moldova intends to advocate for Comprehensive Sexual Education in the upcoming years. 1st Saipal Inter College Futsal Cup To End #VAW and Girls "1st Inter College Futsal Cup was organized by Saipal college, Youth For Youth, Study Plus and other partner organisation from 3rd-5th September. 16 Teams from Different Colleges of Kathmandu Valley took part in the event with more than 1500 direct audience enjoyed the game as well as committed to responsible to Fight against any forms of Violence against women and Girls . Players and Audience among which majority were boys share that sports can be one of the area from where the #VAW message can be spread to all generations . Y-PEER Nepal and #UNiTECampaign was proud to be part of it . Game Coordination & Image Credits:- Roshan Chettri & Binod Chhetri . A friendly futsal match organized in Kathmandu on August 8 ahead of International Youth Day 2014 (Aug 12). FNJ emerged victorious among 8 teams: Mental Health Network, Ministry of Youth and Sports, youth alliance of 10 political parties, Scouts,youth organizations, UN agencies and Y-PEER. A big thank you to all who participated in the event. 'Mental Health Matters' is the theme of the Day this year. Youth with mental health conditions are often subject to stigma and discrimination. Efforts are needed to overcome this stigma and discrimination to ensure that young people with mental health conditions can lead full and healthy lives free of isolation and unnecessary shame, and that they openly seek the services and support they need.
  • 13. Y-PEER Nepal is developing messages on End Violenece against women and girls for Orange Campaign to be disseminated widely in Sunsari, Saptari and Rautahat. Now Lets make it interesting for you...!!! Here's A CONTEST Develop messages on " End Violence Against Women and Girls" That can be on English or Nepali Target group : 12-15 yrs adolescents Teachers and Parents It will be best if you make the messages context specific to the district. or you can make it general as well. Top 15 messages will be awarded with interesting goodies from Y-PEER and UNFPA Nepal. Hurry up ..!!! Deadline is 24th September 2014 Inbox us or email the message on info@ypeernepal.org / nirmala@ypeernepal.org See the link for details on previous orange campaign: http://on.fb.me/1oirw5T
  • 14. UNFPA, together with the ministry of health of Sri Lanka organized a multi stakeholder meeting to finalize the first National policy and strategy of health of young persons,the main goal of the meeting being mainstreaming concerns of health for young people and to improve their health. Y-PEER Sri Lanka Focal Points will be involved in the implementation process to make it successful. Source: https://www.facebook.com/ypeer.srilanka “Taekwondo unites people in promoting gender equality!” National Taekwondo and Kickboxing Federation (NTKF) of Tajikistan strengthens its initiatives within the UN Secretary General’s campaign “UNiTE to End Violence against Women” by involving athletes, leaders, boys and girls to promotion of gender equality activities. Hence, the major international sports event - the 11th Junior and 6th Veteran ITF Taekwondo World Championships took place in Tajikistan in early August and was used as a great opportunity to spread the messages about gender equality, youth empowerment and healthy lifestyle. Notably, Tajikistan for the first time hosted such a high level sport event which gathered more than 700 representatives and athletes from 52 countries. Thanks to the longstanding extensive advocacy and activism of NTKF all events were conducted under the motto “Say NO to gender violence”. Remarkably, NTKF has been collaborating with the UNCT in Tajikistan and UNFPA in particular on the issues of gender equality and youth since 2008. Prior to the championship, volunteers of the national Y-PEER network in Tajikistan and National Volunteers’ Association learnt basics of teamwork and how to resolve conflict situations. NTKF athletes participated the training supported by UNFPA on Reproductive Health, Gender discrimination; Gender based violence, promotion of positive male role models among men and boys, advocacy for social mobilization of communities and other relevant topics. International Youth Day Celebration in Dushanbe This year the IYD commemoration in Tajikistan was fully led by young people and consisted of two events: - cultural event for youth and official event for the public and third traditional annual fair under the motto “Volunteerism as career ladder”. Both events were led by Y-PEER Tajikistan on August 10-12, where young people demonstrated their skills and knowledge, conducted information sessions on mental health and SRH issues, organized flash-mobs, discussion clubs and master- classes.
  • 15. The eents were organized with support of WHO, UNV, UNHCR, UNAIDS, IOM, UNFPA, Serena Dushanbe Hotel, VSO, Ismaili Center of Dushanbe and other national partners. IYD commemoration was fully supported by the Committee of Youth, Sports and Tourism under the Government of Tajikistan. For more information, please visit: http://on.fb.me/1qwGmVH As a part of International Youth Day Celebration UNFPA Uzbekistan together with PEER Educational Recourse initiated the “Orange Selfie” Campaign. A lot of young people took part in the Campaign posting their selfies in Facebook with the message: “I am for investments in youth!”. The winners were announced on the official UNFPA’s page and got the souvenirs from organizers. Beside this, Activists of youth networks “Healthy Youth” and “Diligent Youth” supported by UNFPA and Women’s Committee have come up with a number of activities to make young people’s voices heard.The celebrations included annual awarding ceremony for most active and talented youth, and a charity concert by local groups. In particular, most active representatives of “Diligent Youth” network from the country’s 11 regions were awarded, as well as girls who demonstrated good results in sports competitions held with support of Women’s Committee. Other partners working in the area of youth involvement also took part in the day’s events. In particular, UNDP’s “Social Innovations and Volunteerism in Uzbekistan” project has presented its initiatives aimed at encouraging young people’s participation in socio-economic development of the country. UNFPA and Women’s Committee have been working together throughout the years, on promoting healthy lifestyle among the young people in Uzbekistan. Both partners share similar visions on strengthening the rights of young people and enhancing their potential to increase their role in society. After the colorful celebration of Youth Day two National Trainings (TBT and ToT) for the first time took place in Khiva and Andijan cities in August – September 2014. Young people had a chance to learn about HIV/STI prevention, successful preparation for trainings, theatre methods in education. However they even made a short video-clip “Happy Khiva” as a part of global “Happy” campaign. Both trainings were supported by UNFPA and Women’s Committee of Uzbekistan. (On the photo: Nigina Kadirova, Doston Kholosboev, Feruz Rustamov, Sevara Khamidova - the winners of Orange Selfie Contest) More information you can find here: https://www.facebook.com/SoglomYoshlar?fref=ts https://www.facebook.com/UNFPA.Uzbekistan?fref=ts http://unfpa.uz/en/news/2014/318/
  • 17. Find out more about PETRI core team here: http://petri.ncpha.government.bg/team/main/ More in the upcoming edition.