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Hunyani hills hotel HIV/AIDS awareness training workshop report
New Hope Foundation
January 14, 2010

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Executive Summary

After conducting a two day HIV and AIDS Peer Educators Training Workshop in partnership with three Chinese NGOs in December 2009, New Hope Foundation (NHF) embarked on a roll out exercise. This entailed a one-day training workshop for Hunyani Hills Hotel staff on 14 January 2010. The workshop's goal was "to raise awareness on HIV and AIDS issues to Hunyani Hills Hotel staff for the purpose of promoting behavior change."

Workshop Objectives:

To provide information on:

• HIV and AIDS prevention
• Living positively with HIV and AIDS
• Correct and consistent use of condoms

There were twenty seven participants composed of sixteen males and eleven females. Their ages ranged from nineteen to sixty eight. A participatory approach was the methodology that was adopted so that the adult participants that we had would grasp the concepts by being actively involved. The participants raised a number of fundamental concerns. For instance they complained about the inadequacy of the allocated time and revealed that they had expected to have HIV tests at the end of the session. The NHF staff is convinced that in the future the training workshop should stretch even up to three days so as to incorporate all the essential components without any haste. That would also give room for HIV testing.

Introduction

The workshop had been scheduled to run from eight thirty in the morning up to four thirty in the afternoon. However, due to some logistical challenges faced at the NHF office, some delays were encountered. So the session kicked off one hour later at nine thirty and ended at five thirty.

Methodology

The five facilitators mainly utilized power point presentations, group discussions, lectures role play and question and answer methods. The power point presentations were used on topics such as HIV/AIDS Overview in Zimbabwe, introduction to HIV and AIDS, transmission and prevention, progression and living positively with HIV and AIDS .This was meant to cater for illustrations as well as for the participants to read for themselves.

At the beginning, sheets with pre- test questions were distributed to the participants. This was to measure the level of their knowledge on the issues under discussion. Group discussions were carried out for the following topics; Risks to hotel workers and Living Positively with HIV/AIDS. It was meant for the participants to reveal the reality of their occupational and social experiences. The question and answer technique was implemented on the correct and consistent use of condoms. The aim here was to elicit the participants' attention, to provoke their thinking and motivate them. Lastly the role play method was used during the wrap up so as to gauge how much the participants had understood and gained from the training.

Energizers were applied at intervals to stimulate participants and to relieve them from fatigue after a long lecture. A post test questionnaire was also distributed to measure the level of knowledge that the participants had gained.

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