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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. |
