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Volunteers needed for AJA´s International Volunteer Center in Brasilia
We will be remodeling our main building in Brasilia to accommodate 10 flats for volunteers. We need help from December 2005 to mid 2006..

Santa Catarina is next!
We will need volunteer work to install our new volunteer’s center in Santa Catarina. We will be working during the whole year of 2006.

Photo Gallery
See below some photos of AJA's activities and projects in Brazil and Africa:

AJA programs on job training and professional and special education such as computer and English classes given to disadvantaged, deaf persons and persons with special needs.

AJA promotes human rights campaigns and teach Brazilian Sign Language through local partnerships with Brasilia's police and fire department.

AJA and SENAI - the Brazilian National Industry Service, promoted the first teacher capacity building national program on Brazilian Sign Language for SENAI teachers. This way SENAI can now offer its professional courses and job training also for deaf persons. AJA produced all the educational tools such as books, videos and teleconferences.

The first Brazilian HIV/AIDS prevention program and campaing, made for deaf to deaf persons, was promoted by AJA in partnership with Unesco and Ministry of Health.

AJA participates in the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and draws up research and reports for the Landmine Monitor, an annual publication that monitors landmines worldwide.
The 922-page Landmine Monitor Report 2002: Toward a Mine-Free World is the fourth annual report by the ICBL. The Landmine Monitor initiative is coordinated by a Core Group of five ICBL organizations: Human Rights Watch is the lead organization and others include Handicap International Belgium, Kenya Coalition Against Landmines, Mines Action Canada, and Norwegian People s Aid.

     

Botswana is turning to Brazil to reinforce its strategy against HIV/AIDS, demonstrating that South-South cooperation is more than a slogan.

The Brazilian response to the HIV/AIDS scourge has impressed experts, who have urged other countries to copy it. Botswana, with one of the world's highest rates of HIV infection, is doing just that. More than one third of its adults are infected, according to the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS, while the rate in Brazil is less than 1 per cent.

As in Brazil, school offers a critical opportunity for young people in Botswana to learn about HIV/AIDS and how to protect themselves. The new project, started February 2002, aims to widen that opportunity by enhancing teachers' ability to talk to students about sex and sexuality comfortably in the classroom. The African Comprehensive HIV and AIDS Partnership, the United Nations Foundation and UNDP are funding the initiative.

The project will develop interactive television programmes to help teachers facilitate classroom discussions on potentially sensitive HIV and AIDS issues. It will help break down cultural barriers preventing teachers and parents from talking to children openly about sex and sexuality.

Adonai Rocha, AJA Project Leader, is presently hired as Director and Producer of the interactive TV Program, called Talk Back, part of the TCB Project