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Established in 1985,
SPW is an international youth focused development charity (No. 292492)
based in the UK.
SPW invites young people worldwide to play a lead role in tackling
health and environmental threats in rural Africa and Asia...SPW
brings young people from the developed and the developing world to live
and work together in rural communities. Sharing knowledge, experience
and ideas, they achieve much more than either group could alone. Together
volunteers address the underlying causes of poverty and illness through
school and community based programmes.
 Every
year SPW recruits and trains over 700 volunteers aged 18-28 to work in
rural parts of India, Nepal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia
and Zimbabwe. Over half of our volunteers come from the countries
we work in. In Africa where, by necessity, HIV/AIDS has been SPW's key
focus, SPW's model for bringing young people to the heart of school-based
health programmes has been gaining international respect:
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In
Tanzania, an in-depth review of the SPW programme by the
World Bank concluded that it met all the UNAIDS
criteria for a successful HIV/AIDS intervention (Child &
Youth Targeted HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs, The World Bank, 2003).
UNAIDS includes material on SPW as an example of best practice,
on its prevention website.
(see:www.unaids.org/bestpractice/digest/files/
schoolhe.doc)
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In Zimbabwe,
SPW is carrying out a four-year programme (2003 to 2006) with University
College Hospital, London, funded by the National Institutes of Health,
USA, that incorporates a clinical evaluation of STI and HIV incidence
in SPW target communities as compared with communities with no SPW
intervention. The results of the evaluation will be shared with
SPW in India, as well as all partners and stakeholders.
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SPW Programmes
are affirmative and
help youth celebrate
good health; non-
controversial, high
profile and enjoy the
support of national
figures; highly
participatory,involv-
ing stakeholders
ranging from govern-
ment to school
children"
World Bank 2002:
Education and
HIV/AIDS:
A Window of Hope
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Programme Aim is not