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Peer Education hits snowy London!
With snow, dancing, HIV/AIDS awareness-raising and much much more, the dance4life team started 2012 on a high with a fun-filled Peer Education training weekend. “What a fantastic training, it was great to work with so many enthusiastic young people!” Iona, 23, dance4life Youth Engagement Intern Last weekend, the dance4life team and 10 enthusiastic young people [...]
Balloons, ribbons and cakes for change
dance4life peer educator Kate writes about how she marked World AIDS Day with the Student Stop AIDS Society. Scottish schools, if you’re interested in free skills4life sessions delivered by Kate, email rachel@restlessdevelopment.org… As the Edinburgh students make their sleepy walk though the morning dawn to the looming library across the meadows, they are greeted, every [...]
Action of the month – Stand up for sex education
On Friday 20th January, MPs around the UK will be voting on whether to make abstinence-based education compulsory in schools for young women aged 13-16. At dance4life we think it’s important that abstinence (ie. choosing not to have sex) be included as a clear element within sex education. However, as there is no currently requirement [...]
Your dance4life Xmas Wishes…so far
As part of our Christmas action (along with sending in pictures of your Christmas trees decorated with red ribbons) we asked you to send us your dance4life Christmas wishes. Here’s a selection of some of our favourites so far… “I want to meet at least 5 people in the Christmas holidays and teach them something [...]
World AIDS Day at Ratton School
Meggan from the Ratton Taking Action Group tells us about their amazing actions for World AIDS Day… “This year at Ratton School for World AIDS Day we decided to raise money for an HIV nurse in South Africa, as well as trying to educate all the school year groups about HIV and AIDS. The main [...]
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