The first thing TRIAD does when it partners with a high-prevalence HIV community is to ask questions: What do you want to change within your community? What do you want to accomplish for yourself? Why is this important to the orphans and vulnerable children living in your community? How do you think you can reduce their chance of contracting HIV? Then TRIAD designs a training program to meet those needs.
Method
TRIAD focuses on prevention.
We believe that each generation is a new opportunity for tremendous change.
But that change has to start from within. That is why TRIAD trains local leaders to create and sustain HIV education programs for vulnerable youth. These programs provide kids with the tools they need to lead an HIV-free life.
We implement this education using our proven improvisational methodology in schools and across communities through sports, performing arts, and technology.
Sounds good. But what do the kids who participate experience? Seeing his name in print. Hearing her number called in the starting line-up. Seeing their names in lights. Hearing their own voices blast through speakers. What kid doesn’t love that?
Kids learn best when they love what they’re doing, when they feel inspired by their teachers, when they feel they have something at stake. Our community-tailored HIV/AIDS education programs are the core of innovative sports, arts and media programs. Important life lessons are embedded in fun activities in which these vulnerable children want to participate.
TRIAD’S APPROACH:
- Train local young adults
- Engage more Orphans & Vulnerable Children (OVCs)
- Involve Community
- Normalize facts
- Normalize testing