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TeachAids has partnered with Cents of Relief to provide awareness materials to educate women and children trafficked into red-light areas. The culturally-appropriate materials will be used in a night shelter for young girls whose mothers have been trafficked into prostitution in West Bengal. Cents of Relief has been working to provide vulnerable populations, particularly women in…
TeachAids has partnered with Maitri to provide culturally-appropriate HIV/AIDS materials to personnel in the uniformed services and migratory laborers along with their respective families. Founded in 2005, Maitri is committed to the health and well-being of the most vulnerable populations, including women and children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS throughout North India.
In 2008, three visitors representing NGOs in China were invited to the United States under the auspices of the Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program. Included was Ms. Ying ZHANG the Director, Fuyang AIDS Orphan Salvation Association, Mr. Jun LU, Chief Coordinator, Beijing YIRENPING Center and Mr. Xiangyang CHENG the Director, Beijing Lovingsource Education…
TeachAids presents at the 2008 International Perspectives in the Learning Sciences conference. The theme this year is Cre8ing a Learning World and the conference will be hosted by the Research Centre Learning in Interaction at Utrecht University, with assistance of the Open University of the Netherlands and the University of Twente. It will be held in…
The TeachAids interdisciplinary research project is featured in Stanford University’s Leading Matters media production. Leading Matters is an inspirational Stanford event that reveals how the university is changing and reinventing itself. President Hennessy is taking this production to cities around the world, including Hong Kong, Tokyo, and selected locations throughout the United States. The tour will…
TeachAids founder, Piya Sorcar, presents her interactive HIV/AIDS education materials at the 2008 GEANCO Foundation African Health Education Symposium. Also speaking was David Baltimore, Nobel prize-winning discoverer of the molecule that HIV uses to copy itself into DNA; Kimberly Shriner, leader of the Phil Simon Clinic Tanzania project; Joel Breman, Senior Scientific Advisor at the Fogarty…
TeachAids and CARE International in Rwanda are working together to develop interactive learning tools for rural communities in Rwanda. Through the Communities Allied Against Violence and AIDS Project (CAVA), partly funded by the European Commission and partly by CARE UK, this program targets 35,000 community members, including staff members of primary and secondary schools, young adults…
TeachAids presented at the Unite for Sight 5th Annual International Health Conference at Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, Yale University. The conference included more than 180 renowned speakers from North America, Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. Included a keynote address by Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Susan Blumenthal, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, and Dr. Allan Rosenfield.
TeachAids and Fuyang AIDS Orphan Salvation Association have formed a partnership to create HIV/AIDS prevention materials for youth in China. Ms. Zhang, the Director of Fuyang AIDS Orphan Salvation Association, was featured in the 2006 Oscar Winning Documentary The Blood of Yingzhou District for her outreach efforts. Also joining the collaboration is the China AIDS Initiative…
TeachAids presented new scholarships on HIV/AIDS and schooling at the 52nd Comparative & International Education Society Conference in Grace Dodge Hall, Columbia University. The theme of the conference was “Gaining Educational Equity around the World” and featured speakers from industry and academia from all over the world.
TeachAids presented its development process of culturally appropriate and effective HIV/AIDS education at the 2008 Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Conference. The consortium linked speakers from multiple sites including: University of Hawaii, USA; Yonsei University Medical Center, Seoul, Korea; Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan; Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China; North Shore Private Hospital, Sydney, Australia; University of California Irvine,…
The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) is using TeachAids tutorials for their Rural Health Education Project in Goa, India. The aim of the project, organized by Algonquin College in Ottawa, Canada, is to address poverty in Goa by designing health education and training programs that address the expressed needs of rural communities. TeachAids health animations were…
