Global Youth AIDS Day marked in Style by Africa Youth Ministries in Uganda. Our theme for day was “My Friend with AIDS is Still My Friend”.

Africa Youth Ministries Marked the Global Youth AIDS Day on the 26th of February together with the rest of Youth Globally. In reference to our theme, majority of our activities focused on the care & support of People living with AIDS as well as Children Orphaned and affected by AIDS.

We marked the day in Jinja and Rakai Districts, however our major activities were in Rakai District, this is because the AIDS Epidemic has had devastating impact on the people of Rakai. The first AIDS case in Uganda was diagnosed in Rakai in 1982.

Activities conducted by Africa Youth Ministries, included providing of food care packages to people living with HIV/AIDS and affected by AIDS, this included food, sugar, salt, soap, tea leaves, Clothes and scholastic materials. We identified & visited 50 families badly affected by the AIDS epidemic, such as Child headed House Holds, Elderly Persons Headed House Holds and Families of People Living with AIDS.

We further visited Rhythm Troupe Orphanage in Rakai, an Orphanage with 46 total AIDS Orphans, where we donated Food, Scholastic Materials, and Clothes. At the Orphanage we had a lot of fun where we were entertained by the Children Orphaned by AIDS in Music, Dance, Skits and a Drama HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention.

We closed our activities with a HIV/AIDS awareness & prevention Seminar at St. James High School in Kyotera where we screened a movie on HIV/AIDS and the young people. Similarly we had various presentations from Africa Youth Ministries Staff and by People Living with AIDS. Students at St. James were stunned by a testimony of an AIDS Activist Prima Ndeka who has been Living With AIDS for the last 18 years, they had never seen a person confessing publicly that she was living with AIDS.