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PROPOSAL VOLUNTEER ODYSSEY
The Guyana IYV 2001 Committee proposes the USAID HIVAIDS/STI Youth Project
as suitable for the Volunteer
Odyssey.
Main Sector of activity Health HIV Aids Education
Main Partners/ affiliations
Project Steering Committee
National AIDS Programme Secretariat
USAID
UN AIDS Theme Group
Gento Uninary Medical Clinic
Family Health International (FHI/IMPACT)
US Peace Corps
Partcipating NGOs
Artistes in Direct Support
Comforting Hearts
Cry of Aids
Guyana Responsible Parent Hood Association
Lifeline Counselling & Testing
Linden Care Foundation
Volunteer Youth Corps
Youth Challenge Guyana
Geographical Position Guyana South America
Accessibility Guyana is accessed via Trinidad & Tobago or
Barbados with daily flights on to Guyana. Travel from Air Port to City
km by car
Work sites easily accessible by car furthest point Berbice three
hours by car and boat; Linden I hour by car; Bartica four hours by car
and boat.
Accommodation/Travel Will be provided either as home stays for young reporters/ studio or hotel accommodation. Transportation by car will be provided as necessary.
Counselor such facilitators will be on hand. I.e. personnel with volunteer support experience etc.
Technical services email; telephone; back up television technical services - local television stations.