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Physical Address: Plot 13304, Phase 1, Gaborone
Postal Address: P O Box 20600, Gaborone
Fax: (+267) 3937418

www.yoho.org.bw

Ghanzi

Contact Information:

Seetebosigo Theatre Group
Telephone - +267
Mobile - +267
Telefax - +267
Email –

Mission: To be a ceasing, youth serving organization in the area of performing arts.
Key Issues:

Blood donations
Abstinence
Month of youth against HIV
To work closely with the BNYC

Hukuntsi

Contact Information:
Mr. Kaelo Diphofu –Field Coordinator
Telephone - +267 651 0329
Mobile - +267 717 99 518
Telefax - +267 651 0307
Affiliate site – A He Eme – is a support group that focuses on developing and planning groundbreaking solutions to development problems, through partnership between youth, their peers and adults.

Youth United For Life
Institutional Capacity Development For Youth Groups

Past Programs/ Initiatives:

EU Capacity Building Project – Assisted 3 other support groups in the area to become legally registered NGOS and helped train the groups on leadership, computer skills and basic financial skills.
Sheigochwe (Culture) Festival – Discussed HIV/AIDS during a community event while also celebrating the Sekgalagadi culuture.

Life Skills – PTE’s visit local schools and teach life skills to the students. Life skills sessions include information about HIV/AIDS basics. They have held sessions at six schools in the Kgalagadi area.
Alcohol Project – PTE’s visited out-of-school clubs and presented on HIV/AIDS and alcohol topics. The PTE’s visited 5 clubs in the Kgalagadi area.

Upcoming Activities:

Life Skills -PTE’s will visit local schools and will be teaching life skills to the students. Life skills sessions include information about HIV/AIDS basics. They will be visiting primary schools in the Kgalagadi area.
EU Capacity Building Project – Continue to help the support groups in their NGO registration process.

Mobile Cinema–Show HIV/AIDS themed videos to the community. After showing the videos a discussion will be conducted about the topics seen on the videos.
Sheigochwe (Culutre) Festival –This is an annual commuity event which celebrates the Sekgalagadi culture and discusses HIV/AIDS various topics.
Talk Shows – Open discussion with community members and students about teenage pregnancy and HIV/AIDS.

Kasane

Chobe Arts Association

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Contact Information:

David Plarto – Field Coordinator
Telephone – +267 (IS THERE A LANDLINE?)
Mobile - +267 7261 2939/ +267 7551 5434
Email – plartonic@rocketmail.com

Vision: To promote government health programmes to have a healthy nation, towards the realization of Vision 2016.
Factors Contributing to the HIV prevalence rate in Kasane:

The village is a main trucking route between the borders o Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
There is limited access to education and employment opportunities.
High alcohol consumption.
Limited number of recreational facilities.

Specific Goals:

The Chobe Arts Association is a dynamic theatre group that works, as an affiliate of YOHO, to strengthen the life skills and to empower 85% of the youth in Kasane through community mobilization and capacity building of individual artists. Through interactive talks and entertaining educational activities, Chobe Arts Association promotes positive messages related to sexual and reproductive health to both in school and out of school youth in the area. In addition, the site is working towards improving its overall organizational sustainability, in collaboration with service organizations and government, by 2012.

Past programs:

Some previous programs that have been implemented by the Chobe Arts Association include:

Life skills camps held in all Junior Secondary Schools in the Chobe District
Children’s theatre workshops and productions performed by all ten Primary Schools in the Chobe District
Malaria outreach through community mobilization performances
Constituency Arts Competitions

Upcoming Events:

Upcoming initiatives of the Chobe Arts Association include an Arts Festival to be held in 2011, theatre development sessions among the area Junior Schools, participation in YOHO’s alcohol theatre competitions – which serve to highlight the risks of alcohol abuse as it relates to sexual and reproductive health – as well as, additional Children’s theatre productions and alcohol community mobilization road shows.

Lethakane

Boteti Youth Organization
Telephone - +267
Mobile - +267
Telefax - +267
Email –

Objectives:

To being unity among the youth; promote and encourage youth talents through the arts and culture

To sensitize the community on other general issues of development, including the environment, and to take part in community and national activities as they relate to these issues of development

To raise funds for the club in pursuance of its objectives

To sensitize the community on anti-social behaviour, ie. drug and alcohol abuse, crime, child abuse, HIV/AIDS and its related issues through song and theatre

Visit area schools to address teenage pregnancy

Address issues of gender based violence in collaboration with UNFPA

Participate in HIV/AIDS and TB Roadshows

Francistown

Regional Office – North
Contact Information
Mr. Phineas Botlhale - Regional Manager
Telephone - +267 240 4373
Mobile - +267 7287 0235/ +267 7155 7258
Telefax - +267 240 1762
Email – yohofrancistown@gmail.com / phineasbotlhale@yahoo.co.uk
Specific Goals:

To entertain, educate and empower all Batswana youth aged between 10-29 on national health programmes and policies, with priority on issues of sexual reproductive health in Northern Region of Botswana.
To build capacity among individuals, NGOs and Government to promote health for young people with priority on sexual reproductive health in the Northern Region of Botswana.
To collaborate with other youth health service organizations, to network and advocate for youth health promotion for all affiliates site in the Northern Region.
To sustain YOHO initiatives through income generating activities in the Regional Office.

Past Programs/ Initiatives:

Go Girls Initiatives – GGI.

The GGI programme commenced on October 2009 in City of Francistown targeting the following locations Bluetown, Kgaphamadi, Tonota Village and Tsamaya Village. YOHO Regional Office was mandated to conduct Community based life skills (CBLS) targeting venerable girls 10-17 year old and to address another aspect of economic empowerment (EES). For Community Based Life Skills the participants completed 19 sessions from the Go Girls manual/Curriculum in order to graduate from the programme.
This project reached a total of 200 venerable girls who were trained and graduated in the programme. The GO Girls! Initiative has come to end on September 30, 2010.

2. BEST OF THE DEST COMPETITIONS

Best of the Best Arts Festival is an initiative by YOHO Regional Office to support and create a plat form for Artists to market their products and promote competition amongst Artists.

3.Generations of Leaders Discovered – GOLD

GOLD Peer Education Development Agency is a dynamic nonprofit organization playing a key role in the transformation of under-served communities in sub Saharan Africa through the roll out of long term adolescent peer education model. The GOLD PE programme has been endorsed by the Ministry of Education and skills Development, and currently piloted in five districts of Botswana. The GOLD Peer Education model addresses the behaviors and beliefs that are at the root cause of HIV and AIDS pandemic among the young people. The GOLD Peer Education Development Agency engaged the service of YOHO-Regional Office, Francistown to implement the GOLD Peer Education programme since 2005. YOHO Regional Office adopted and implements the GOLD Peer Education programme in three Junior Secondary schools (Donga, Mmei and Goldmine CJSS). Since 2005, YOHO Regional Office, Francistown has recruited, trained and mentored a total of 217 peer educators being Junior Peer Educators-JPEs, Senior Peer Educators-SPEs and Mentors Peer Educators-MPEs in three secondary schools and reached out to about three thousand young people within those schools.

Upcoming Activities:
Some upcoming initiatives of the Regional Office include Tuberculosis Road Shows, Bar and Shebeen Dialogues, Student Days that will focus on the issue of Multiple Concurrent Partnerships and a Motor Vehicle Accident project to deal with the safer driving practices. In addition, Seboza Clubs (hyperlink) will continue, both with in-school and out-of-school youth in the area. Please consult the Calendar of Events (this should be hyperlinked to the calendar) for more information.

Serowe

Tselakgopo Cultual Commune – Where Young Minds Soar

Contact Information:
Joseph Galebonwe – Programs Officer (IS THIS THE SAME AS FIELD COORDINATOR?)
Telephone - +267 463 0917
Mobile - +267 7436 7609/ +7155 7323
Email – tselakgopoculturalcommune@yahoo.com

Mission: To promote and mobilize ordinary people’s participation in HIV/AIDS programmes and interventions throughout the Central District Council (Serowe).

Specific Goals:
Tselakgopo Cultural Commune is a youth run organization based in the Central District of Botswana dedicated to promoting healthy lifestyles among youth in the Serowe area. Positive messages related to HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health are shared with community members using the performing arts – arts, drama, music and poetry – in efforts to promote key prevention behaviours. In addition, Tselakgopo works to preserve culture, through the arts, and shares in Botswana’s Vision 2016 of _______________________.

Previous Programs:
Seboza Lifeskills Program: Works to teach children in Primary Schools the ten basic facts of HIV/AIDS so that they can develop short drama productions related to these facts.
Student Days: Share messages of abstinence with students attending area Secondary Schools through games and theatre. Efforts were focused on delaying the age of sexual debut as a key method in reducing the spread of HIV.
Community Days: Promote a zero transmission lifestyle amongst in-school and out-of-school youth, including information on voluntary testing and multiple concurrent partnerships.
Seboza Clubs: Area youth are asked to participate in a series of workshops related to lifeskills, youth empowerment and theatre.

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