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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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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.4 in the series, for example, is Pastoral Action on HIV and AIDS - Training guidelines on the pastoral aspects of the HIV epidemic.