As we implement this year’s activities for the Youth to Youth Initiative which are carried out in all centers of the African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN), the Center’s Education and Listening Information Center Catholic University of Bangui-RCA is opening a new chapter that aims to put young people at the
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Sensitization forum to students of Ocer Campion Jesuit College In Gulu-Uganda
Ocer Campion Jesuit College (OCJC) is located in Northern Uganda, in Awich village, eight kilometers out of Gulu town. It is a boarding Jesuit founded school, and run by the Eastern Africa Province of the Society of Jesus. The school is one of the many recovery and rehabilitation projects that
Investing and supporting young people: Training of AHAPPY Trainers at the Arrupe Madagascar Center (CA MDG)
By placing young people at the center of the fight against HIV infections in Madagascar and Africa, the Center Arrupe Madagascar (CA MDG) in collaboration with the African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN) is driven by compassion and strives to instil this approach in young leaders and mentors responsible for providing
Journeying with the Youth: JUC Launches AHAPPY Program for the Academic Year 2022-23
We are all called to make the world a better place for our children and our children’s children, we have the Society of Jesus calling us – as the third Universal Apostolic Principle (UAP) states – “To accompany young people in the creation of a hope-filled future.” Through AJAN HIV
Relaunch of AHAPPY program at St. Aloysius Gonzaga Secondary School in Kenya
After a bit of lull caused by unavoidable Covid-19 interruptions, AHAPPY activities have resumed in earnest at St. Aloysius Gonzaga Secondary School. Being one of the only schools picked in East Africa for the piloting phase of AHAPPY program back in 2013 mainly due to the nature and background of
AJAN Director visits Centre Social Arrupe, Madagascar.
Taking care of the family, the basis of society. At the end of my visit to the Arrupe Social Center, Madagascar from 7 to 16 October 2022, I would like to share in a few words what I experienced. Indeed, the Centre Social Arrupe Madagascar (CA-MDG) is a work of the Jesuit
AJAN holds the Directors Monthly Virtual Meeting, October 2022. Journeying together.
African Jesuit AIDS Network held its monthly delegates virtual meeting on 21st October 2022 from 12noon to 3Pm East African time. The meeting was attended by 11 delegates who were representing different AJAN centers in Africa. The main agenda of the meeting was to get updates and experiences from the
Sensitization forum to youths undertaking vocational skills courses at St Joseph Technical School on life skills
St. Joseph the Worker, located in Kangemi in Kenya organized a youth sensitization forum on entrepreneurship and soft skills training, that was attended by forty-nine students of St. Joseph Technical School. The training which took place on 19th October 2022, was facilitated by Mrs. Leah Wariga from the National Youth
The challenges of educating young people in Africa
A special radio program with the Director of AJAN P. Ismaël Matambura SJ on Radio Don Bosco Ivato Antananarivo – Madagascar Africa is a continent with a greater number of young people. It is an opportunity for its development and for its future, especially if these young people will have
CELEBRATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: 50 STUDENTS FROM THE ASSOCIATIONS OF THE CENTER CATHOLIQUE UNIVERSITAIRE EQUIP THEMSELVES WITH KNOWLEDGE AGAINST FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION, HATE SPEECH AND MISINFORMATION
As part of the activities of the delayed commemoration of the International Day of Peace (IDD 2022), the day of October 09, 2022 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. was devoted to an educational talk with 50 students from the Student Associations of the Center Catholique Universitaire. These are the
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