Wednesday, 10 September 2014

When silence is GOLDEN

Normally, it is our business as SAfAIDS to make a lot of noise around young peoples needs, their sexual reproductive health rights are VERY important to us. How can we secure our collective futures if our young people remain at risk of early marriage, early pregnancy and STIs such as HIV. Before any storm, there is always a calm. Especially in material development!

After all the excitement of the Book Sprint last week, we are back to the more mundane, but completely essential task, of editing the document. The world is sepia toned once more, until the next burst of creative light causes our surfaces to sparkle again, and highlight the jaunty edges of material conceptualization, development and design.


So let me introduce you to our young writers support system. SAfAIDS Executive Director, Lois Chingandu, SAfAIDS Deputy Director, Rouzeh Eghtessadi, and there I am in the middle, Katrina Wallace-Karenga, SAfAIDS Head of Technical Services and Book Sprint facilitator.


Working with young people to develop content designed to guide and inform them is such a rewarding task, and an absolutely critical step in SAfAIDS Material Development Cycle.  Did you know we can have up to twenty-two key steps? We do this with each and every material we produce.

Watch this space!
We have a few steps still to go before we can present the final Course Manual. Good things come to those who wait (and to those who collaborate)! Cheers for now.
The Young Leaders Book Sprint Team

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