The issue of Aids/sexuality is a huge issue that we need to be educating young people in. YFC (Youth for Christ) has been doing this in schools and church groups for some years now, by running a programme called True Love Waits in schools throughout the PE area. This is proving to be a very effective preventative/awareness creating,value changing tool in ministry to young people.
 

What is True Love Waits?

Youth for Christ runs a programme called True Love Waits, a sexual abstinence campaign that seeks to offer an alternative to the Safe Sex message. The purpose of the programme is to inform, inspire and challenge students to choose to refrain from sex before marriage. South African youth are receiving many varied messages about sexuality. Our message of commitment to abstinence until marriage is a positive way of addressing the issues of self-image, peer pressure, HIV/Aids, STDs, pregnancy, abortion and rape.
 

What are the goals of True Love Waits?

• To communciate to teenagers the spiritual, emotional and physical value of abstaining from sex until marriage.
  

• To challenge families to address, discuss and develop acceptable levels of sexual behaviour.
  
• To provide schools a way of supporting parents and their teenagers as they express their commitment to sexual abstinence.
  
• To communicate to students, teachers and families a working alternative to the "safe sex" message.

 
Current Status:

True Love Waits is currently run in Primary and High schools around Port Elizabeth. The programme is presented to the following grades over a period of 4 lessons or 4 weeks:

• Grade 7s
  

• Grade 8s
  
• Grade 9s
  
• Grade 10s

The programme is also presented in the following ways:

• Assembly programmes
  

• Workshops
  
• Grade 11 classroom presentations
  
• Grade 12 classroom presentations
  
• Youth group meetings
  
• Community Rallies
  
• Commitment Card ceremonies

 
Topics Covered in the curriculum:

• Self-image - Peer pressure
  

• Purpose - Temptation
  
• Relationships - Values and Principles
  
• Decision-making - Body language
  
• Sex and sexuality - Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  
• Pregnancy - Contraception
  
• HIV and Aids - Abortion
  
• Rape

 
For more information, contact YFC:

• PHYSICAL ADDRESS
  82 Albert Road, Walmer. Port Elizabeth. 6070.
  

• POSTAL ADDRESS
  P.O. Box 34878, Newton Park. Port Elizabeth. 6055.
  
• FAX: (041) 581-3501.
  
• TEL: (041) 581-8853
  
• E-MAIL yfc@eastcape.net

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last updated 15 September 2000