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FAI PROJECT FOR OLORUNDA LG
An HIV/AIDS awareness Media Program is being undertaken by FAI for five border communities in Lagos State and lasted 12 months in the first instance with another 6 month follow-up program. 

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 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 favors, 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.

QUICK LINKS
http://nigeria.usembassy.net/wwwhpepfar.html
http://abuja.usembassy.gov/
http://nitda.org/naii
www.familiesalive.net/pepfar.htm
www.familiesalive.net/HSL_Series.htm
www.familiesalive.net/parents_forum.htm
www.familiesalive.net/family_forum.htm

OLORUNDA "LOCAL GOVERNMENT"
The Olorunda Local Government Area of Lagos State is one of the 3 new LGs created from the old Badagry LG originally created by the Federal Government of Nigeria. The two others are Badagry and Badagry West. Badagry township is an ancient border town in the South West of Nigeria and so are a number of other towns and villages in the old LG. FAI's attention on the HIV/AIDS Media project is focused on five of thirty-five communities of Olorunda LG. The LG has Hon. Abraham O. Ogabi as its elected Chairman while each of the 35 main communities has a Community board headed by a Chairman, known as the Community Development Association (CDA) Chairman. The development, especially through self help of these communities are primarily mobilized by these selfless crops of community leaders. The CDA chairmen all belong to a committee known as Community Development Committee and that's headed by a CDC Chairman, a position currently occupied by Chief B.O. Akinyele while Mr. E.O. Ajose is the LG's CD Officer. On the traditional level, each community either has an Oba (King) or a Baale (Community Chief) depending on its status as graded by the State Council of Obas. By and large, a community that only has a Baale has its Baale reporting to the Oba in whose domain his community belongs.

In the 5 communities of Ilogbo, Magbon, Mowo, Ibiye and Oko Afo that FAI is working with, only Ilogbo has an Oba while each of the four others has a Baale supervised by the Oba of Ilogbo. From time to time, this page shall bring you progressive stories from these communities and others on the Lagos-Seme border axis as they come.