AIDS/ Leadership Camp 2

Picture 1: The kids learned about how you can get HIV by sharing needles. They used eye droppers and food coloring to help demonstrate this process.

Picture 2: This is a leadership activity where the kids get into groups and have to work together to keep the balloons in the air. More and more balloons kept getting put into the group so it got harder and more fun as time went by.

Picture 3: A nurse at the hospital helped the kids learn how to use condoms. They each got a partner, a condom, and a cucumber and they practiced putting the condom on and then learned how to properly take it off.

Picture 4: My friend Bom came to help with the camp to teach the kids how to teach. They did two sessions where they learned the basics of teaching...Plan, Practice, and Perform, as they will be taking the information they learned from this camp and teaching it to their peers. This is the second day after Bom gave each group of kids a topic about HIV/AIDS. Each group made a plan, practiced it, and then taught their topic to the rest of the students.

Picture 5: This is a picture of P. Keeow ( a nurse at the hospital) and two members of the community. One has HIV and the other has a family member with HIV. They came to tell their stories with the students and then answer any questions that the students had after they finished. These two women are extremely brave to do this as this is not a disease understood in rural Thailand and by their community knowing about them it can lead to bad outcomes. We wanted to show the kids that people with HIV/AIDS can look just like everyone else, that they aren't scary, and are still wonderful people.