UNICEF in ActionUNICEF collaborates with other UN agencies in supporting the Kygryz Republic’s State Programme on HIV/AIDS for the period 2006-2010. The aim of its support is to ensure that adolescents and young people have access to life skills education, providing special emphasis on HIV transmission and injecting drug use. UNICEF promotes meanful participation of children in all its programmes and involves young people in national forum with decision-makers in the areas affecting their lives. The issues debated include access, quality and effectiveness of health care,education; and social protection services, with a particular focus on groups of marginalised and invisible children and families. In the Kelechek migrant community, one of the poorest areas near the capital Bishkek, as well as in Bakten Oblast - one of the poorest region in the south of the Republic, UNICEF supports extracurricular club activities aimed at empowering children. Radio Waves Supporting Girls: FM Education in Kyrgyzstan
Batken is famous for rocky soil, apricots...and Radio Salam
Sport is another way in which young people acquire life skills and become their own advocates. UNICEF supported the Kyrgyz Football Federation in campaigns against drugs and HIV/AIDS. Coaches were trained on how to better understand children and help them protect themselves or find essential information. Young peer educators developed entertaining ways to pass on life skills to other children.
Kyrgyz youth thrilled at Blatter's visit to Bishkek, where FIFA head opens new football stadium
UNICEF advocates for the incorporation of youth friendly services into the health reform process and supports the training of medical workers in new approaches to reduce stigma and discrimination against vulnerable adolescents and young people, including those living with HIV/AIDS.
UNICEF supports the plans of youth organisations to develop a national network to ensure that children’s voices are heard. Young Journalists Talking to the President of Kyrgyzstan
|
