About 6,000 girls a day undergo genital mutilation, often willingly, and up to 115 million African women have already had it, US-based development agency World Vision have said.
A recent survey of street children Kigali, Rwanda, has shown that just over half the boys and over three-quarters of the girls interviewed reported having had sex, while a full 35 percent of those under 10 were found to be sexually active.
People's Dialogue, a national NGO working in the field of Poverty Eradication is looking for a psychiatric nurse to run a training and outpatient centre in Philippi, Western Cape, for the diagnosis and treatment of HIV/Aids, substance abuse and domestic violence.
The Community Education Computer Society (a computer training NGO established in 1985) will be conducting the ICDL course from the 18 March 2002 for 6 weeks for those who are computer literate.
Bill Gates has given a huge financial boost for Gauteng's fight against HIV/Aids. GPGAA would support NGOs in a number of their ongoing initiatives, including preventing mother-to-child infection, testing, support and counselling.
An Aids Orphans Trust Fund is to be established by the Makana Municipality. The trust wll be established to gather financial resources from private, corporate and international donors and channel support to established, functional organisations providing effective services to Aids orphans.
A programme to curb the spread of Aids among the youth in schools has been launched in Kenya. It involves establishing clubs in primary and secondary schools to create awareness and sensitise the youth about HIV/Aids. The programme is supported by the Child Welfare Society of Kenya and Save the Children, Canada.
A broad coalition of Sudanese civil society groups and indigenous nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) this week called on the United Nations Security Council to create "safe havens" in southern Sudan in order to protect civilians from what it called a government "scorched earth policy".
