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Sexual Health and Rights. They also conduct training and development
programs for youth advocates and volunteers who take part in various
conferences and opens up the opportunity for a lot of youth to advocate for
SRH issues.
7.2 Youth Health Café
An initiative under the name of the Youth Health Café was started by the
Ministry of Youth and Sports with the UNDP’s financial assistance. The cafe
was targeted at out of school youth. Since then they have conducted Life Skills
and peer education programmes in various atolls in the Maldives.
In 2008 they conducted a very successful peer education programme in
Aminiya School, where they selected students with behavioral problems and
provided training to them using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). The
success of the programme meant that by the end of the year the outreach had
extended to about 700 students from the school.
Similarly, in 2012 they focused on conducting outreach programmes for school
children. Once again one of the main concerns raised was that organizers
found it difficult to get approval from school management and the school
boards.
During the stakeholder meeting held in 2012, participants from YHC explained
the major obstacle faced when conducting these programmes was the
difficulty in getting the trained facilitators. Further, problems with
accreditation of certificates made participants unwilling to take part in the
training programmes.
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