Life skills lessons turn Turen students into role models
Every day after school, 7th grader Jeren Yovbagshiyeva sits down with her family for afternoon tea.Today, instead of the usual talk about her progress in class, she has something different to discuss.Her school has just had a special lesson about the risks of drug use and the dangers of HIV and AIDS.It was a session that has stirred her to action. Jeren is what her teachers call a "pioneer". She is expected to take her knowledge from the classroom, and spread it
throughout her community. ...Critical information in Turkmenistan, where only one in eight women of fertile
age is able to identify the ways HIV can spread.
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