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Badagry Community Honors US Diplomat
The ancient town of Badagry known to have still-standing, the first 2-storey
building in Nigeria and the relics of slave-trade made yet another history on
Saturday, May 19, 2007 when it conferred a chieftaincy title on Dr. Rudolph
Stewart, the Information Officer of the US Mission in Nigeria as the
Fiwagboye of Ilogbo-Eremi in Badagry. Like the title translates, Dr. Stewart
earned the recognition out of his exemplarily good character.
DETAILS
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 An
HIV/AIDS awareness Media Program is being undertaken
by FAI for five border communities in Lagos State to
last about 12 months. Funded by the United States
government under PEPFAR (Presidential Emergency Plan for
AIDS Relief), the project is specifically designed to
meet situations of border town communities as found in
our 5 target communities of Ilogbo, Oko Afo, Mowo, Ibiye
I & II and Magbon in the Olorunda Development Centre
which is in the Badagry Local Government Area of Lagos
State on the Lagos/Seme border axis. For
particular attention also are road camps on the axis
where female mobile traders and child hawkers hawk their
wares such as pure water in cello-bags, locally fried
plantain chips, boiled eggs and the sort but also openly
and readily flaunt their bodies. In this category also
are young girls barely teens, a pathetic situation.
In villages closer to the border itself, sex is actually a
trade and includes
not just mobile traders but migrant business ladies as
well. This category of women who in essence often trade
sex for favours, including from locals open the doors to
HIV infections and other STIs. Unfortunately, their
knowledge of HIV is mostly distorted; and they lack the
knowledge and will-power to protect themselves from
being infected or infecting others.
 Therefore,
using media tools, the primary objectives of this
project include Creating Awareness on HIV/AIDS; Promote
Behavior Change; Promote VCT and make referrals to HIV
primary care
in the early stages of the disease; Educate on ways to
prevent infections; Educate on ways someone cannot be
infected and help reduce stigmatization; Educate on
proper use of the right condoms; Help build community
based support groups for people living with; Build a
network of young people to encourage delay sex debut and
abstinence, etc. |
