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Peer Educator Interviews
The World
Links HIV/AIDS Project Facilitator sent the WASS 2000 Peer Educators a
number of questions during the 2001 training. Two Peer Educators, one
girl and one boy, sent their responses, copied below.
If you would
like to contact either of the Peer Educators, please let the Project Facilitator
know (klofbloo@yahoo.com).
Mary Mantey
1.
What have been your main responsibilities as a Peer Educator this year?
My main
responsibility for this year is to bring AIDS awareness to 30 persons
in the area that I stay so that each of the 30 persons can at least talk
to 3 persons hoping that by the end of the year together with my co-P.Es,
we would have brought the knowledge of HIV and AIDS to about 1000 persons.
2. What was the age and gender range of youth you talked to?
The age
range is 15 -19. I talked to more girls than boys.
3. What was the best part about being a peer educator?
Many people
were ready to listen to me. In fact they took whatever I shared with them
seriously and also shared it with others.
4. What was most challenging about being a peer educator?
Some people feel the disease is not real.
5. Would you mind sharing the hardest question you got asked as a PE this year?
I was
asked, what I will do if I contract HIV?
6. Will you continue to serve as a PE next year? If so, do you
feel that you need more, follow-up training to do an even better job next
year? If so, what would you like to see in the training?
Yes, I
need a follow-up training and want more topics to be discussed at the
next training if invited.
7. Do you recommend being a PE to others? If so, what advice would
you have for others thinking about being a PE?
Yes. The advice I have for my friends and others is that P.E. makes one more educative and knowledgeable on HIV/AIDS issues and can easily enhances your relations with others.
8.
Did you get help from an HIV/AIDS Non-Governmental Organisation over the
year?
If so, how did they help?
Yes. The
NGO [AIDS Action Ghana] provided persons to train us with the support
of our teacher. It also provided us with handouts on the disease.
1. What have been your main responsibilities as a PE this year?
My responsibility
as a peer educator this year, is to educate my peers on HIV/AIDS related
issues and help my former teacher, Chris and project co-ordinator auntie
Grace to organise peer education workshop for the youth in parts of GA
North, Greater Accra in Ghana.
2. What was the age and gender range of youth you talked to?
The age
(both boys and girls) I talked to is 16 - 25.
3. What was the best part about being a peer educator?
The best
part of my being a peer educator is being able to talk freely to my peers
about STDs and HIV/AIDS and being able to love and care for people living
with AIDS and not avoiding them.
4. What was most challenging about being a peer educator?
The challenge is people asking more questions that I couldn't answer but had to consult my teachers in order to get answers to them. This has improved my understanding of the disease.
5. Would you mind sharing the hardest question you got asked as a PE this year?
"Should
we lock up people with HIV/AIDS? Would that stop the spread of the disease?
Doesn't this work in other countries?"
6. Will you continue to serve as a PE next year? If so, do you
feel that you need more, follow-up training to do an even better job next
year? If so, what would you like to see in the training?
Yes. I will continue to serve as a PE and I think I need a follow-up training to be able to do more and even better next year. And would like to see people living with AIDS share their experience with us.
7. Do you recommend being a PE to others? If so, what advice would you have for others thinking about being a PE?
Yes. I want them to be PEs for us to stop this menace which is silently consuming our people here and there.
8. Did you get help from an HIV/AIDS Non-Governmental Organisation over the year? If so, how did they help?
I had help from the AIDS Action Group of Adenta, Accra, Ghana. They helped by providing me with condoms, pictures, and models to show people how to use condom properly and also provided me with some reading materials which I gave to my peers.
