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Activity Highlights 1. From Urban to Rural : NGO Capacity Building : Under the programme urban to rural, GAP selected 28 grassroots NGOs from Amreli, Rajkot, Surendranagar, Patan, Anand, Nadiad, Ahmedabad, Panchmahal and these NGOs have attended skill building workshops. During the period 2001-2002, all these NGOs have started their intervention programmes. These programmes are with youth, adolescent, women, unorganized labour force, organized labour and the fishermen community. 2. Young People : Young people, as always, remain as the target group for HIV/AIDS/STDs awareness programmes. This includes the school drop-outs from different slum areas of Ahmedabad - who took part in different awareness programmes and some of the selected youth were trained as Peer Educators (PE). 30 Peer Educators were trained from all the intervention sites and 2224 youths were contacted. 3. National Social Service (NSS) programme - GAP took part in three NSS programmes and addressed the students from different rural areas of North Gujarat University, Gujarat Vidyapith, Nardipur, M.B. Patel College, Vallabh Vidyanagar and at Meghraj. 43 professors/ lecturers and 336 students attended these programmes. 4.
School Intervention Progamme - GAP worked
in 30 schools from Nadiad, Anand and Ahmedabad districts. 2373 students
took part in the programme. The highlights of this year's school programme
was : The skilled peer educators, both from the students and the teachers
conducted the classroom intervention with the support of GAP facilitators.
Teachers took active interest in the execution of the programme. This
is an indication of the sustainability of the programme in schools. 5.Training
Programmes Organized by GAP 6.
NGO Linkage Programme - Child line is a telephone
counselling and information dissemination service - where youth volunteers
are working. A workshop was organized to help volunteers develop their
communication skills in the field of HIV/AIDS/STDs. A small workshop,
organized by Sarjan, was conducted by GAP, where 17 boys and 6 girls (
young people )of the street and community were shown a film and they also
received information on HIV/AIDS 7.
In-House Training Programmes - 8.
Empowerment of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) 9.
Care and Counselling: 321 PLWHA are newly
registered with GAP this year . Altogether 830 PLWHA are registered with
GAP. 10.
Home visits : GAP volunteers are rendering
home visits/services to those who cannot reach the counselling center. 11. Prevention of Mother - to - Child - Transmission - In this new service, GAP has counseled 3 pregnant women in respect to the prevention methodology and has helped them in getting ARV, and all of them have been given information in respect to breast feeding. 12. Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) : This is another new service launched by GAP. Through an active campaign in different areas, GAP reached the unreached and gave information about voluntary counselling and testing. 35 people attended the VCT camps and availed the testing services. 13. Medical Consultation Service for AIDS Patients : GAP has launched medical consultation services for AIDS patients who are clinically examined and advised by the AIDS specialist, who visits GAP center, once in every month. This consultation service is available free of cost to the AIDS patients. 14. Jail Programme : The Central Jail (Sabarmati) authority organized six training workshops on HIV/AIDS for the Jail staff. 107 trainees from all over Gujarat attended these workshops. 15. Unorganized Workers : GAP is working with the unorganized workers like masons, carpenters and plumbers for the last 5 years. There are four pockets in Ahmedabad city where these workers assemble for their labour assignments, and, at these centres GAP volunteers intervene and extend services, which include information on HIV/AIDS/STDs, syndromic detection of STDs and referral to clinics for treatment and condom distribution. 3364 people have been contacted during the last year. 16.
Organized Sector : Gujarat state Transport
Corporation : GAP with the help of State Transport Corporation , organized
awareness and essential service delivery programme (STD detection and
treatment and condom distribution) to technical staff, drivers and conductors.
GAP visited 4 service centres and 573 staff members of the State Transport
Corporation attended the workshops. 17.
Advocacy : GAP is re-visiting the city's
blood banks, pathology laboratories and general practitioners to give
the message about HIV/AIDS/STDs and also informing them about the different
services available at the GAP centre, like Counselling, Income Generation
Activities, Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT), and Free Medical
Consultation for people living with HIV/AIDS. 18.
Campaign - Women's Empowerment 19.
Safer Blood Supply to the Community : Since
the last 12 years, GAP is working on safer blood supply to the community
through 2 components 1) Vigilance on commercial blood donors(CBDs) so
that the trade of selling blood does not start again in the city. In this
respect122 ex-commercial blood donors were contacted during the year.
2) Motivating the youth to become voluntary blood donors. 20. Reaching the Outreach : The Commercial sex workers of three cities, Ahmedabad, Modasa and Vadodara are in touch with GAP's outreach workers. 137 commercial sex workers are regularly getting condom supply from the GAP programme. Some of these workers are already participating in the pilot study on the use of the female condom 21. Open House : Every month GAP organizes an "Open House Day" - where people can drop in and interact with GAP staff and understand the different activities carried out by GAP. Discussion, film shows and exhibitions are also organized, 64 people took part in the Open House activities during the year. 22. Healthy Highway Project (HHP) : Since April 2001, the project is supported by Gujarat State AIDS Control Society(GSACS)/Project Support Unit (PSU). Since last December (2001), the project has restarted a need assessment study and the Targeted Intervention has been stopped for this purpose. During the first 9 months of the project, 66,951 drivers and cleaners have been contacted. 23.
Cruise/Safar : Through this very innovative
project, GAP reaches the rural areas of Gujarat with information on HIV/AIDS.
Outreach workers move around the market place and travelling joints and
halt points, where through personal communication and group meetings,
they disseminate information on HIV/AIDS/STDs. During the year 9775 people
have been contacted through this programme. 24.
Resource Center : GAP has a well maintained
resource center where books, magazines of local and international publications
are available, which are widely referred by interested audience and research
workers. Through internet service, constant up-grading of HIV/AIDS information
has been collected & utilized by the organization. 170 video cassettes,
posters from different countries are available and are often borrowed
by different NGOs and institutions. 25.
Publications and IEC Materials - 26.
World AIDS Day : Each year, GAP organizes
events with its partners. This year, a four week programme was organized
in Ahmedabad and rural areas of Gujarat. GAP and its partners made posters,
leaflets and held exhibitions, seminars, rallies, essay competitions,
debates and street plays. 44 programmes were organized in Ahmedabad and
22 programmes were held in different districts of Gujarat. 27. Abhiprayas - Abhiprayas is the Income Generation Activity (IGA) wing of GAP, where People living HIV/AIDS and other marginalized groups are engaged and help themselves in generating some income . These handicrafts are sold through different outlets. 28.
Inter Sectoral Collaboration : GAP and Gujarat
Government The department of family welfare, Ministry of Jail and Ministry
of Surface Transport are the agencies who are collaborating with GAP in
bringing awareness on HIV/AIDS. Gujarat StateAIDS
Control Society is funding the Healthy Highway Project of GAP. 29.
Earthquake Support : Mandarki is a small village in Rajkot district,
where GAP is extending its support for rehabilitation. In the first phase,
keeping with the demand of the community, GAP helped the village people
to install a hand pump for drinking water. This programme is being supported
by donations from Japan, USA and Health & Environment Public Charitable
Trust, India 30.
Seminars, Meetings, Conventions, Conferences, Exhibitions and Fairs: ·
Attendance and presentations at Indian and International Programmes Thanks
to your generosity 32.
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