Educational Activities

Help youth and people of all ages learn more about HIV and AIDS and the conditions of poverty which have deepened the crisis. Browse the following educational activities to find a resource that will work well in your community:

Hunger Education Toolkit
A toolkit on hunger and disease from ELCA World Hunger. Learn more.

Taking Root
Hunger Education curriculum for children from ELCA World Hunger. Learn more.

Brokenness to Wholeness
A youth education curriculum on HIV and AIDS developed by the Lutheran AIDS Network)
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Curricula

Keep the Promise curriculum

God’s Mission in the World curriculum

God’s Mission in the World: An Ecumenical Christian Study Guide on Global Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals
Intended as a resource for congregations and other groups who are looking to broaden their understanding of global poverty and identify opportunities for action, the guide features six weekly devotional and educational sessions exploring Christian understandings of social justice and issues of global poverty, hunger and disease. Session Six of this series focuses on HIV, AIDS and malaria.

Keep the Promise
The Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance prepared this teaching resource on advocacy and HIV and AIDS as part of its HIV and AIDS campaign. The resource is aimed at young people age 11 to 16, but can be adapted for use with other groups. It includes an overview of basic facts about HIV and AIDS, shares stories of the impact of the AIDS pandemic on youth from around the world, and teaches youth how to make their voices heard in the global struggle to halt and reverse the spread of HIV.

“You bait fish with what you know the fish would like to eat.”

This African saying describes why the Lutheran Communion in Southern Africa (LUCSA) has made computers the core of an innovative HIV and AIDS prevention program for youth and children. Info-hut provides computer access in the context of a local tradition, a special African hut that traditionally provided the place in a village where young and old could gather to share wisdom and information.

The Info-hut is a simple structure outside a school that is equipped with computers. Children and youth, who don’t have access to computers, vie for the opportunity to learn to use them. But with every key stroke, they also learn about HIV and AIDS. Some students receive more intensive training and then teach their peers both basic computer skills and about HIV and AIDS. After school hours, Info-hut is also open to the community. Modest access fees make the project sustainable.