2013-10-31

October 30-31, EPSAYA public union organized 2 days training courses within the project of “Protect yourself and people around you from HIV/AIDS and drug abuse!” with the financial support of the Youth Foundation under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan for the 25 youth participants from the South region of the Azerbaijan Republic – Astara, Jalilabad, Lerik, Lankaran, Masalli and Yardimli in AB Qala Hotel, Lankaran city. There were 13 women and 12 men youth participants in the training courses. Besides the staff and participants we had two state representatives – Mr. Nazim Valiyev, Deputy Director of Lankaran city Youth and Sport Department and Mr. Yusif Khaniyev, Senior Advisor of the Department of Public-Political and Humanitarian issues of Lankaran City Executive Power. During the training courses the staff and the participants discussed a lot of themes related to the healthy lifestyle – “HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS and Addiction, current problems and their solution ways, the world and country statistics”. In the training courses the staff used different role-playing games, interactive group works, debates, simulations, focus group discussions and presentations and more other training methods including watching to the different social videos related to the topics throughout the entire session. In the end of the training courses the participants and the staff elected 10 active young people by voting way for the zonal training course in the name of “Training for trainers” on December 04-05, 2013 in Lankaran. They also thanked to the Youth Foundation under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan for implementing such kind of necessary project for the youth in the South region.