Manuals, books and films
The Strategies for Hope Trust produces a wide range of resources - manuals, books and films - about ways in which communities can address the challenges of the global HIV epidemic.
All of these materials are evidence-based, well illustrated and written in user-friendly language. Over 1 million copies of these materials are now in circulation worldwide.
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"I learnt from the DVD 'What can I do?' that the way one frames messages is as important as the message itself. For example, recognizing the significant difference between a spiritual growth message and a public health message for self-protection against all the known germs and diseases causing bacteria and viruses like HIV. This can help us to avoid imposing incorrect forms of moral judgment on people. Someone's HIV status may not reveal much (or anything at all) about their spiritual status and vice versa."
Student
The University of the South
Sewanee, Tennessee
LATEST NEWS
Developing Creative Minds in Malawi
A youth organisation in Malawi has published a Chichewa edition of a Called to Care training manual.
In Malawi, as in many other African countries, there is still a serious lack of information about HIV and AIDS, sex and gender issues, especially in local languages. A small youth organisation in Blantyre, Youth Activists Initiative Organisation (YAIO), decided to confront this problem head-on. Their motto, ‘Developing Creative Minds’, is an apt description of their ideals.
Despite having no publishing experience, YAIO applied to the German Catholic aid agency, Misereor, for financial assistance to translate and publish an edition…
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Strategies for Hope: 27 Years On
The Strategies for Hope Trust has published its Annual Review for the 12 month period April 2015 – March 2016.
Called to Care workbooks: from Africa to Asia
In Nepal two CALLED TO CARE workbooks, developed in Kenya and Malawi, are now being used with faith leaders, school pupils and parents.
Called to Care
Practical, action-oriented booklets and mini-manuals on issues related to HIV/AIDS, designed for use by church leaders, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. For information on how to run training workshops using these manuals, please see the Called to Care Users' Guide which can be found in the Documents section under About Us on this website.
No.9 in the series, for example, is More and Better Food - Farming, climate change, health and the AIDS epidemic.
DVDs
Strategies for Hope has produced a series of videos, that can be used in a variety of settings.
For example, Under the Mupundu Tree - Volunteers in home care for people with HIV/AIDS and TB in Zambia's Copperbelt.