Youth Against AIDS will be running an HIV/AIDS prevention seminar at SU Fest 10! Hope to see you and your friends there!
Date: 26th January – 3-9 PM at Canossa School Grounds, Mahakali Caves Rd., Andheri (E)
For more details – contact Dinesh (9833873847) or Rodney (9320793779)
Take 30 pairs of hands eager to help. Take 30 young hearts with a passion to change things. Take 30 pairs of legs willing to go to new places.
Put all of this talent to good use – sending them in small groups to families who have HIV or are at risk of getting the disease.
See what can happen.
A lot!
We were totally blessed to have an excellent YAA Day of Service 09.
On the 28th of November – folks from 10 different assemblies came together to serve. And serve they did. Meeting people in their homes, eating with them, helping out in practical ways, getting into other people’s shoes…
Everyone was changed.
Two months on – we see some really amazing long-term relationships developing.
Many thanks to all the tireless work that the JSK team did in organising our time together – especially John Jebaseelan and Ashis Karthak and Binson James for their roles in getting things ship-shape. Huge thanks for the passionate young guns who came along and made a world of a difference – in the lives of others – and in their own lives!
Aim:
The YAA Day of Service seeks to open the eyes of youth by bringing them face to face with people affected by or at risk of HIV/AIDS.
The YAA Day of Service is at the core a group activity where individual church youth groups are paired for a day with families affected with/at risk of HIV. The youth will be given specific service tasks to do in order to minister to, and understand what reaching out to affected families means.
What we will do:
1. We will meet in different regional centres nearest to you (Ambarnath, Kurla, Mulund, Thane etc) on the morning of November 28th.
2. There we will have a short orientation with a time of worship, task distribution and pep talk. We’ll pray and move out to the families assigned.
3. We will spend the bulk of the day with the affected/at risk families doing specific acts of service and kindness. Have a packed lunch together. Talk. Share. Worship. Build friendships. Leave after tea at 4 PM.
4. Finally we travel to the JSK Centre in Thane for a debriefing and celebration session from 6-8 PM. This will involve testimonies, prayer and an inspirational message as well as music and understanding the way ahead. Your youth group will be able to meet with members of other youth groups. The day will end with a fellowship meal.
Activities:
Are you ready to get your hands dirty? We have exciting activities for you to help you understand the kind of life HIV affected people live. We want you to open your eyes to seeing poverty and dignity – and to give you an opportunity to help them within your capacity, so that by the end of the day you have the satisfaction of doing some good work and learning a bit more about life.
The varied activities include:
Apart from the activities we come to hear their life experiences and the problems they are facing and praying with them.
Program:
Interested? Give us a call!
25896952 or 9321112065
It’s great to be alive!
We want to stay that way.
And help as many other young people to protect themselves from AIDS.
That’s the thought behind Youth Against AIDS.
Young people helping young people.
To stay pure in a crazy world.
To help each other out in the difficult and challenging bits of growing into adulthood.
To be a friend – a real friend.
AIDS is terrible – we wouldn’t want anyone to get it – but it is also totally preventable.
And it also challenges us to help others.
Lets keep talking!
Thanks for coming by. We expect to see more of you in the future!
Hang in there! Hope rocks!
- the YAA team
