Friday, 27 Jan 12 - 08:30.. of course Not ALL Teachers are Girls!!

Chapter 4 of The Girl Effect by Chris Grieves

We love the Girl Effect but we would also love to see the 'Bloke Effect' in Africa too!

In 2011 we saw an amazing Teachers trip lead by Andrew Rochford (one of our UK Leadership Team) but as Andy himself said of the self-starting teachers "I pretty much left them to it!". Andy stepped in at the very last minute when Kathy Smedley (herself a retired teacher) and founder of Act4Africa, became far too ill to go with them as originally planned.

What all the teachers achieved and the impact that made in the relatively short time-frame was quite incredible and it will probably live-on in the communal memory in the children of the villages, schools and communities in this small part of Africa.

Wow! We would love to see more of this on-the ground impact.

Could you be part of it as a Teacher in the next year? How about making a lasting difference and creating an inheritence for the people and kids of Africa?
Contact us for more information.

You can also read more of the amazing BLOGS >> Here <<

But why not follow in their footsteps in 2012 and do something amazing with some of your vacation time?

We have TWO brilliant opportunities for teachers or student teachers to use their skills in Ugandan schools in 2012 - 2013.

If you have 2 weeks either at Easter or in the Summer break then check out the details at ... Teachers Expeditions (click to join our exciting team for 2012)

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Thursday, 26 Jan 12 - 08:15VCT Testing Success in Africa

Chapter 8 of Teams in Africa by Peter Masereka / Chris Grieves

The Teams out in the field (Africa-side) are the focus of the fund-raising and support generated by the UK based offices, as this is where Act4Africa really makes a difference; in villages and communities, with families, leaders, women and children and many, many other places where our preventative message about HIV and AIDS can be heard.

Here is a 'hot-off-the press' report directly from one of our teams involved in VCT testing;

"This month the voluntary counselling and Testing was very well done, 107 people turned up and only two women tested positive."

Says Peter Masereka, our team manager in Kasese,

"It was so encouraging that since October last year, we had not got another big number like this, people line up to be registered and the Act4Africa team was so efficient in doing the work. "

So, what does a typical VCT testing session look like? Who runs what ..?
Peter explains,

The manager, Pastor Peter, was in the Lab, Alice our Office Administrator was in the registry and Ruth our Secretary was in counselling.

Is this a good turn out and is Act4Africa really making a difference?

"Yes all efforts are making impact here, education about the use of testing has really been seen in this turn up.

You know our December education sessions were conducted a few metres away from where tested from so this shows that people got the message."

Your contribution and resourcing as a supporter of Act4Africa really does make a difference as Peter and his hard-working team can testify, so thank you.

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Sunday, 01 Jan 12 - 00:30What We Have Achieved is Remarkable

Chapter 2 of Presentation Archive by Chris Grieves

Act4Africa's history over the past 10 years has been colourful and exciting.

Sometimes there is no better way than to capture the essence of that vibrant life-force than to take the images and photographs of the people and places and put their story to music.

Over the years, we have done this many times and have collated some of these 'chapters' in the life of Act4Africa here for you to enjoy.

What we have achieved in the past decade is remarkable - but only with the dedication of the teams in Africa and the groups who have travelled from around the World to be part of an amazing, life-changing, dramatically different experience.

I am sure in the next 10 years there will be many more...

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Interview with Pastor Peter (Kasese) by Martin Smedley in 2006: Click Here if you cannot see the video clip below.

Since this was filmed over four years ago, we also need to now replace the Jinja team's 4x4 vehicle. Such transportation is vital for the work the teams do out in the villages as Peter explains below.

You can help us to continue and make a personal contribution to this life-saving work by becoming an Act4Africa Angel.

Pastor Peter Masereka is a highly respected and regarded figure among the African Teams and senior figures in his place of work with Act4Africa.

Pastor Peter from Chris Grieves on Vimeo.

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