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Y-PEER KAZAKHSTAN

www.y-peer.kz, Twitter: YPEERKazakhstan, +7 7252 53 43 25, [email protected]

November-December, 2010

Y-PEER is a network of more than 500 organizations and institutes thatinclude thousands of young people working in the broad areas of sexualand reproductive health and rights of adolescents. It is a constantlyexpanding network uniting youth from Central and Eastern Europe,Central Asia, the Middle East, Northern and Eastern Africa, and othercountries. The network was pioneered by the United Nations PopulationFund (UNFPA). In Kazakhstan, Y-PEER was launched in 2003 in SouthKazakhstan Oblast. Today the network is expanding to Astana andAlmaty.

IN THIS ISSUE:

TRAININGS OF TRAINERS

In the past two months, two ToTs were

conducted: one in Shymkent city and one in

the Ordabasy region of South Kazakhstan

Oblast.Page 2

PRESENTATION OF JOINT YOUTH STATEMENT AND

10 DAYS OF ACTIVISM

World AIDS Day Commemoration and Joint

Youth Statement Presentation among local

government representatives, parents, and

business women in South Kazakhstan Oblast.Page 3

IMPLEMENTATION OF TIME TO SPEAK UP MEDIA

ADVOCACY PROJECT

Training for Journalists on HIV coverage in

media in South Kazakhstan Oblast.

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INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE OF Y-PEER

KAZAKHSTAN

Y-PEER Kazakhstan representatives had a

study tour to PETRI Centre in Sofia. Aldiyar

Abduali, active peer educator, took part in aGlobal Youth Summit in London.

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This edition was issuedwith the help of Focal

Points and member

organizations of the Y-

PEER Kazakhstan

network.

To find out more, visit

www. y-peer. kz and

www. youthpeer. org

Issue No.: Two

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WORLD AIDS DAY

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A NEW PEER EDUCATION GROUP STARTS ITS

WORK IN SHYMKENT CITY

20 young people from 6 schools and 3colleges in Shymkent city were invited toparticipate in a Training of Trainers thattook place from December 2nd - 3rd, 2010.

The training was facilitated by Y-PEERFocal Points Malika Atasheva (Shymkentcity) and Kamila Tuyakbayeva (Astana city),with the assistance of professional medicalworkers in the area of sexual andreproductive health.

This training was comprehensive. I literallygot the answers to all the questions I couldnot ask anyone for a long time. I am surethat many peers of mine also have lots ofquestions. I cant wait to share with them,said Evgeniya Zhuravleva, a trainingparticipant and student of the ShymkentEconomics College.

Following the Training of Trainers, allparticipants will go through a practicum inorder to get their peer educator certificates.The practicum includes attendance of at

least 4 consultation trainings conductedweekly in the office of the Youth VolunteerLeadership Centre Dostar, as well asdesign and facilitation of additionaltrainings on SRHR topics.

Based on the results of the practicum, allthe participants of the Training of Trainerswill be certified as trainers and will start

their adventurous and interesting lives aspeer educators.

TRAINING OF TRAINERS IN TOLE-BI

The Y-PEER Shymkent team of FocalPoints and peer educators conducted aTraining of Trainers for committed youngpeople in the Tole-Bi district of SouthKazakhstan Oblast. The ToT took place onDecember 29th and 30th, 2010.

Before this training I had no idea whatvolunteering meant. In our school we do nothave any access to information of that type.Now, after the training, I am ready to shareinformation about HIV with my friends,and just in general to be helpful to mycommunity, said Ryskul Temirlan, ToTparticipant.

23 peer educators were trained based onpeer-to-peer principles on the followingtopics:- Reproductive health and rights;

- STIs and contraception;

- Leadership

Participants of the training were able topractice their trainer skills in the moduleHIV and AIDS Prevention. After thetraining, peer educators started to planadditional trainings in their respectiveschools.

Aida Darzhanova

43 new youngpeople became peer

educators in theperiod of November- December, 2010 inSouth Kazakhstan

Oblast

ToT in Tole-bi region, South Kazakhstan Oblast ToT in Shymkent
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World AIDS Day

As a part of 10 Days of Activism, the

World AIDS Day was commemorated by Y-

PEER members of the Youth Volunteer

Leadership Centre Dostar in the South

Kazakhstan Economics College with more

than 60 participating students.

Peer educators conducted a presentation

and dialogue session with participants,

discussing the most important issuessurrounding HIV in South Kazakhstan

Oblast. Participants of the event prepared

short skits to demonstrate the scale of the

HIV problem in the region. At the end of

the event a Quiz Show was conducted

with presents to the winners and a video

about HIV was shown.

I Believe in my Future

Campaign

The organization For the Future of HIV -

positive children Orken, a close partner

of the Y-PEER network, conducted various

events to commemorate World AIDS Day.

In the middle of November an essay and

poster competition was announced in

collaboration with the South Kazakhstan

Oblast Education Department.

One of the events of the campaign was

mobile HIV testing services in Kainarbulak

village, implemented with the

participation of the Oblast

Child Protection Department

and Oblast AIDS Centre. The

m o b i l e s e r v i c e w a s

accompanied by a doctor,

psychologist and lawyer. 20

people received anonymous

HIV testing and 1 new case ofHIV was registered during the

campaign. At the end of the

testing, the members of the

organization distributed condoms and

informational materials among people of

the village.

In addition, workshops on stigma and

discrimination towards people living with

HIV were conducted for students of

Shymkent Vocational School #6 and Belye-

Vody Village School, where in total 70people were informed about the disease.

To conclude the campaign, a mass youth

HIV/AIDS event was held in the Children

and Adolescence Hall of Shymkent,

garnering the participation of about 1000

students in the city. The winners of the

essay and poster competitions were

announced at the event.

The commemoration of World AIDS Day

then moved to a night club, where condoms

were distributed by workers of Orken and

different interactive shows took place on the

stage.

Zhandos Aldiyarov

Y-PEER launched "10 days

of Activism" to

commemorate the

International Year of

Youth. From December1-10, 2010, young people

conducted intensive

awareness-raising

activities on youth sexual

and reproductive health

and rights simultaneously

in all Y-PEER member

countries.

10 DAYS OF ACTIVISM

WAD at the Children and Adolescence Hall

WAD at Economics college
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Social Projects MarketA Joint Youth Statement on SRHR,

developed during the Y-PEER

Partnership Meeting by Y-PEER and

its partners (October 1,2010), was

presented at the Social Projects Fair for

local government representatives,

executives of the Internal Affairs

Department of Shymkent and other

districts of South Kazakhstan, andlocal NGO representatives. A printed

version of the Statement was

distributed among the participants in

both Kazakh and Russian languages.

The fair was initiated by the Civil

Alliance of South Kazakhstan Oblast

on the 8th of December and was

aimed to create a common platform for

NGO s a nd l oc a l g overnme nt

representatives to establish partnership

in order to implement socially

i m p o r t a n t p r o j e c t s i n l o c a l

communities.

The event was a good opportunity to

disseminate information about the UN

International Year of Youth and

present the Statement.

Women and

Entrepreneurship

Conference

The Women and Entrepreneurship

conference gathered together successful

business women and socially active

women in Shymkent city on the 14th of

December.

The conference was conducted by the

South Kazakhstan Association for

Womens Empowerment (www.awe-

kz.org) in collaboration with other

partner organizations.

Peer educators of the Youth Volunteer

Leadership Centre Dostar, Y-PEER

network representatives, presented their

work and main achievements to the

conference participants. Opportunitieswere presented for business - women to

support youth initiatives promoting

sexual and reproductive health and

rights.

Volunteers also distributed the Joint

Youth Statement on Sexual and

Reproductive health and rights to

participants of the conference.

The Joint Youth Statement is available

in English: http://bit.ly/gZtn6t

in Russian: http://bit.ly/fpSADs

In Kazakh: http://bit.ly/eelvhR

DISSEMINATION OF THE JOINT YOUTH

STATEMENT

Women and Entrepreneurship Conference
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TIME TO SPEAK UP MEDIA

ADVOCACY PROJECT

Training for Journalists

A training for journalists on Correct

Coverage of HIV Issues in the Media was

held in South Kazakhstan Oblast from

December 21 - 22, 2010, as an integral part

of Y-PEER Kazakhstans Time to Speak

Up Media Advocacy Project.

11 journalists took part in the training from

three rural regions of South Kazakhstan

Oblast and Shymkent city. The training

agenda included various aspects of HIV

issues, journalistic etiquette, and practical

knowledge implementation. Journalists

had the chance to interview people living

with HIV as well as the Deputy Chief

Doctor of the South Kazakhstan AIDS

Center.

As part of the training, journalists also

watched educational documentaries onHIV/AIDS and discussed techniques and

ethical issues of HIV coverage in their

professional practice.

UN-certified journalist-trainer Marina

Maximova led the two-day workshop,

sharing her expertise of HIV issue coverage

in mass media as an outstanding journalist

of the national Almaty TV channel. Ms.

Maximova gave professional feedback to

each media piece prepared by the

journalists at the end of the training.

I found this training very productive, said

Aydana Eslamgalieva, participant of

training and Molodezhka youth socio-

informative newspaper reporter. I used to

write a lot of materials for youth audiences

and now, after this training, I will be able to

report even more broadly and accurately

about HIV.

All the participants received certificates and

were able to produce HIV - related media

materials at the end of the training.Aida Darzhanova

During 10 Days ofActivism Y-PEER

members inKazakhstan posted

twitter and facebookmessages with sexual

and reproductive

health and rights factsto raise awarenessamong young people

in Kazakhstan. 3video messages werecreated and posted inyoutube, kiwi.kz, and

kaztube.

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http://bit.ly/e55Mc7

Training for Journalists Training for Journalists
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Y-PEER KAZAKHSTAN STUDY TOUR TO PETRI-SOFIA

Members of the Y-PEER network from different parts of

the world often meet together to share experiences and learn

from each other about how to further improve the network

on a country level. This year a Y-PEER delegation from

Kazakhstan, consisting of 4 people, enjoyed the learning

process during the study tour held from November 7th -

12th, 2010. The team learned about Y-PEER functioning in

detail through various meetings with key role-players in the

network: PETRI coordinators and fellows, the Bulgaria

Focal Point in Charge, network Focal Points, peer educators,

partner organizations, Y-PEER alumni, and others.

The PETRI Centre in Sofia arranged a comprehensive and

interesting agenda for the delegates. The study tour was an

enriching experience for Y-PEER Kazakhstan. It provided

deep insight to the delegates, and a follow-up meeting of the

national Focal Points in Kazakhstan was conducted where

further work priorities were drafted. These types of tours

should be arranged on a regular basis, as it proved to be an

effective mechanism for progress in the Y-PEER network.

ALDIYAR ABDUALI, PEER EDUCATOR OF THE NETWORK, SHARED

HIS EXPERIENCE IN GLOBAL YOUTH SUMMIT, 2010

60 Global Changemakers from all over the world met in

London to share ideas and expertise and enrich their

knowledge at the Global Youth Summit held from

November 21-27, 2010. This year the key topics were

poverty and hunger relief, environmental issues and climate

change, education, girls and women's rights and HIV/

AIDS.

Various activities were conducted by both participants,

organizers and guest-speakers from all around the world,

who were invited to meet and share their stories.

I realized that there is no point in wasting even a minute of

your life! People should do as much as they can to achieve

greater success all the time, said Aldiyar after his return

from the Summit. As a follow-up to the Summit, Aldiyar has

conducted experience sharing training for Y-PEERs in

South Kazakhstan and shared his story and opportunities

for young people with 300 students of South Kazakhstan

schools and colleges.AZIZ ABLAYEV, Y-PEER EDUCATOR, PARTICIPATED IN JASHTAR

CAMP

The Jashtar Camp took place in Bishkek, the capital of

Kyrgyzstan, on the November 10, 2010. It gathered about

500 young people from Central Asia and aimed to support

youth initiatives and create a platform for young people to

share their ideas and projects. I participated in the camp on

behalf of the Y-PEER Kazakhstan network and was able tolearn interesting and useful information to implement in my

own organization. There were several sessions going on at

the same time. I was particularly interested in the new and

innovative projects that young people implemented in

Central Asia.

Aziz Ablayev

Y-PEER Kazakhstan International Experience
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YOUTH OF SOUTH KAZAKHSTAN FOR

THE HEALTHY LIFESTYLE EVENT

The main square of Al-Farabi was full

of young people on November 23,

2010. Many people came to

participate in the event called Youth

of South Kazakhstan for the Healthy

Lifestyle, where a concert of talented

youth took place. Volunteers of the

Youth Volunteer Leadership Centre

Dostar conducted a mini-session todisseminate information about the

harm of drug use, and distributed

informational leaflets. The whole

event aimed to raise awareness about

the harm of drug use among young

people.

Dina Amirova

NO WAY TO DRUGS TRAINING IN A

STUDENT HOSTEL

On November 23, 2010, peer

educators of the NGO Dostar

conducted a training for the students

of South Kazakhstan State University

who reside in a student dormitory in

the city. Around 30 students

participated in the training, which

offered interactive exercises to educate

students about the consequences ofdrug use.

Ayim Olzhabay

NGO ORKEN CONDUCTING

WORKSHOPS ON STIGMA AND

DISCRIMINATION TOWARDS PEOPLE

LIVING WITH HIV AND AIDS

A workshop for more than 50 students

of Miras University was conducted by

the trainers of Public Association For

the Future of HIV Positive Children

Orken, which is a member of the Y-

PEER network.

During the workshop, various

exercises were conducted to break

s t e r e o t y p e s a n d e l i m i n a t e

stigmatization and discrimination of

people who live with HIV.

Zhandos Aldiyarov

TRANSIT MOVIE FACILITATION

On the 13th and 15th of December

28 English Speaking students of

Interpress Language teaching Centre

and movie club attendants watched

transit movie by MTV and took part

in post-movie discussions facilitated by

Rebecca Gong and Malika Atasheva.

Transitwas made as part of MTV's

Staying Alive campaign, which aims to

raise awareness, reducediscrimination

against HIV positive people and break

stereotypes.

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