<p>Hi there,</p>
<pre><code> I've started the ambition to start a new charity aiming to supply resources and teaching aids to those schools of Africa teaching sex education. The charity will of course try and encourage those schools which are in the areas of HIV and general STD stricken areas of Africa to start to teach pupils of sex education and contraception.
I just need some ideas over what resources for these teachers would be successful? How could we teach potential sex ed teachers and how could I publisize the organization?
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<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I think that what you're doing would be very hard to set up. From your post, I assume that you live in the U.S., so probably don't have direct contacts with any African country nor do you probably have the personal knowledge of any African culture to know best how to set something up. The fact that you also say that you wish to do this "in Africa" shows a lack of knowledge. Africa is huge continent with many cultures, ethnicities, religions, languages etc. Any program would need to be individualized to address what exists in the specific part of Africa that the program would be in.</p>
<p>Even people in the Peace Corps who live abroad usually take at least a year of living in a place before being able to help set up anything. They don't just move to a foreign country and immediately try to impose their ideas on the people. Peace Corps volunteers get to know the culture, work to gain trust and accepted by the people, and learn about things from that culture's perspective. </p>
<p>To set up a nonprofit in this country requires one to establish a board and do legal paperwork that takes at least a year.</p>
<p>Anyway, if sex education/disease prevention is what you are most interested in, you'd be better off volunteering locally with an organization like Planned Parenthood or your local AIDS treatment/prevention organization. By volunteering at such a place, you'd also learn things that would help you in the future if you do decide to help with sex education, etc. in a country in Africa.</p>
<p>Should you wish to pursue things like this in college, I know someone who's a freshman at Oberlin who'll be spending this semester in Kenya working in HIV prevention. Probably there's info about this on Oberlin's site.</p>