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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"This book [My Life – Starting Now] is very useful for children. If there were a lot of these workshops in churches and schools, I believe we could have less cases of early pregnancies among the girls, who in most cases drop out of school. However, you have to consider translating these books in our own local languages for them to reach as many people as possible. "
Edgar Phiri
Heavens Ministries
Blantyre, Malawi
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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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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.6 in the series, for example, is The Child Within - Connecting with children who have experienced grief and loss.
DVDs
Strategies for Hope has produced a series of videos, that can be used in a variety of settings.
For example, What Can I Do? - The HIV/AIDS Ministry and Messages of Gideon Byamugisha.