Since July Ibis has coordinated the training of 280 road workers in AIDS-awareness. 20 health workers, which work at clinics along the way, have participated in 10 days courses in combating HIV/AIDS – paid by Ibis. And 20 activists have been trained in visiting the villagers en route to inform about the dangerous disease via group discussions etc.
The actual training has been done by local HIV/AIDS-organizations. A number of pamphlets, posters and condoms have been distributed.
Ibis won the contract with the National Road Administration, ANE, for the HIV/AIDS awareness-building project earlier this year. Trine Tange, which is spouse of Ibis’ organizational development advisor, Nicolai Meulengracht, is master in public health and coordinates the project, which will continue, until the EN242 is rehabilitated in 2005. /tgn
