Project results presented in Moscow
Today the ILO Office presented a manual ”Your Health” for vocational college students. The manual was developed and published with the support of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science under the ILO/DFID/UNFIP project on Comprehensive Partnership Strategies for HIV/STI Prevention among Young People in the Russian Federation.
23 December 2005
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“Your Health” was designed as a training material for a one-year course at vocational colleges in two pilot project regions – the Altai krai (territory) and the Volgograd region. It contains different modules devoted to personal hygiene, healthy diet and lifestyle, family planning, as well as such themes as violence, alcoholism, drug-use and smoking.
4000 copies of the manual have been already distributed among vocational training institutions in Altai and Volgograd, and requests for additional copies are already coming to the Ministry of Education and the ILO Office.
“We were very interested to support this project, because fight against HIV/AIDS is a priority for the UK Department for International Development, said Jim Butler, Head of DFID Russia, who attended the presentation. “I have witnessed the results of the project in Volgograd. I visited vocational schools there to see the teachers who had been trained to use the ILO materials. They spoke highly of the quality of the manual, and we discussed how to disseminate this training course throughout Russia. I will also promote this successful project among my colleagues in London in order to use it as a model in other countries, Butler said.
Mr. Werner Konrad Blenk, ILO Moscow Director, stressed the importance of fighting HIV/AIDS at a workplace. We should fight not only a disease, but also discrimination, misconception and fear, he said. The ILO’s goal is to reach out to every workplace, every student at vocational schools, who, as it is well known, tend to be involved in risky behavior.
“We know the ILO cannot do it alone. We see ourselves as part of a broader alliance against HIV/AIDS, together with our colleagues from other UN and development agencies, such as DFID”, Werner Blenk noted.
The ILO project has been completed but the work started will continue. The Ministry of Education and Science is already planning to apply the training course in other regions of Russia.
4000 copies of the manual have been already distributed among vocational training institutions in Altai and Volgograd, and requests for additional copies are already coming to the Ministry of Education and the ILO Office.
“We were very interested to support this project, because fight against HIV/AIDS is a priority for the UK Department for International Development, said Jim Butler, Head of DFID Russia, who attended the presentation. “I have witnessed the results of the project in Volgograd. I visited vocational schools there to see the teachers who had been trained to use the ILO materials. They spoke highly of the quality of the manual, and we discussed how to disseminate this training course throughout Russia. I will also promote this successful project among my colleagues in London in order to use it as a model in other countries, Butler said.
Mr. Werner Konrad Blenk, ILO Moscow Director, stressed the importance of fighting HIV/AIDS at a workplace. We should fight not only a disease, but also discrimination, misconception and fear, he said. The ILO’s goal is to reach out to every workplace, every student at vocational schools, who, as it is well known, tend to be involved in risky behavior.
“We know the ILO cannot do it alone. We see ourselves as part of a broader alliance against HIV/AIDS, together with our colleagues from other UN and development agencies, such as DFID”, Werner Blenk noted.
The ILO project has been completed but the work started will continue. The Ministry of Education and Science is already planning to apply the training course in other regions of Russia.