The “untitled” curriculum that will change Africa.
There’s been a whole lot going on here at Thrive over the last month. We had a mission team from Virginia here with us, our village discipleship classes had graduation, over 280 students attended our Leadership Day event, and what would a small town be without the circus coming to town.
For the most part I wasn’t involved too much with those events because I’ve been immersed in designed the next curriculum for our AIDS prevention program, Leadership Summit.
This one focuses on, well, AIDS. We’ve written ones before that talk about AIDS in certain ways, but this one focuses entirely on the subject.
When we asked kids what they would like to learn more about, an overwhelming topic was that of AIDS. You would think that in a country where 1 in 4 people are HIV positive, kids would already know so much about the subject. Unfortunately, you’d be wrong. Kids don’t really know much at all on the subject. It’s not talked about and it’s definitely not taught in the schools.
| We feel the silence has gone on long enough and it’s now time these kids hear the truth about HIV. And why not, AIDS is killing over 320,000 people in South Africa every year. Compare that to 16,000 AIDS deaths in America. |
| United Nations 2007 report |
The still “untitled” curriculum has a total of 10 chapters and each chapter is split into 3 sections: Truth, God, You. The truth section is all about giving these kids the facts about AIDS. I know it sounds simple, but we still encounter kids here in South Africa that don’t even believe AIDS is real. I know, crazy! The next section focuses on what God says. How He created them to live out their life using their gifts and talents and that He doesn’t want anything to get in the way of that! The “You” section is the application part. In a sense, “we’ve given you all the facts and tools now it’s up to you”.
So far I’ve got about 6 chapters completed and it’s starting to come together rather nicely. I’m always a bit nervous when I start on these projects because it seems crazy that I have about 6 weeks to come up with what is basically a magazine all by myself. Luckily, I’m not alone on this. Marc, an intern here, has been a lot of help with the design.
So what’s next for me when I finished this curriculum…. another curriculum!
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About Me

My name is Dave Ditges and I'm Florida native who moved out to South Africa in 2005 to serve along side Thrive Africa.
I head up the creative department as well as taking on the role of the resident "tech guy" in the office.
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Recent Writings
- Wrapping Up Mission Teams
- Coming Home for Christmas
- It’s All About Passion
- One Busy Month
- Google helping out
- How does Facebook know?
- Talk about “pay at the pump”
- The “untitled” curriculum that will change Africa.
- Trip to Botswana
- The Last Few Projects
Archive of all my posts
Natalie Jane said...
You are so good at what you do though….
Sachi said...
Good Day. We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
I am from Mozambique and also now teach English, give please true I wrote the following sentence: “If you don take it for the full weeks weeks for fingernail fungus the fungus. Return and you have to start all over again.”
With best wishes :o, Sachi.
Jock said...
Hello everyone. [M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn’t perfection but progress.
I am from Rwanda and also now am reading in English, tell me right I wrote the following sentence: “Am june bruce quinn wrote historically the issue has not been identifying medicare and medicaid fraud but prosecuting it.”
With respect :o, Jock.
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