We welcomed back Olena Yesepenko to Perechyn for the second installment of our training of mentors. This session was focused on puberty, sexual reproduction, and sexually transmitted diseases and how to educate young people about them. Here you see Balint, a graduate of the school himself and local mentor to youth,
practicing how he will provide basic sex education to the teenagers at the boarding school. The participants learned about contraception and how to demonstrate such things as condom use to the youth, while also discussing with them abstinence and waiting until one is older and in a committed relationship and married. We discussed the growing rate of HIV/AIDS infection in Ukraine - the fastest growing in Europe. While Western Ukraine has a slower rate of transmission than that in Eastern Ukraine, graduates from orphanages are at five times greater risk for transmission of the disease.
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