To promote Vietnamese youth and adolescents' awareness and knowledge on gender, love, sex and safe sex, an exhibition entitled "As We Grow Up" will be launched next week on Friday, November 1st at the Viet Nam Museum of Ethnology in Ha Noi.
The exhibition is a joint effort between the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU), the Vietnamese Museum of Ethnology (VME) and the UN Viet Nam (with UNESCO as the leading agency in collaboration with UNFPA, UNAIDS, UNWOMEN, UNODC and UNICEF). The exhibition will run for six months, from November 2013 to April 2014.
Puberty, friendship/love, and safe sex
The exhibition focuses on three main topics: puberty, friendship/love, and safe sex. Each exhibit is brought to life by real stories and experiences shared by Vietnamese youth and adolescents, their parents and teachers. In addition to the information, photos, stories and art works displayed at the exhibition, it also features peer-to-peer interactive activities and hands-on information to address sensitive issues, as well as monthly panel discussions on related-sexual and reproductive health issues.
Youth main actors
One of the innovations of the exhibition is active involvement of young people throughout the preparation process, from planning, designing, creating contents, collecting information to developing peer-to-peer interactive activities. It is the first of its kind that employs this peer-to-peer approach. A group, including 15 students, was established and participated in the preparation process of the exhibition in 2012. In addition, there are other 60 young volunteers to participate in developing and facilitating interactive activities, organizing educational games, providing consultation and answering questions from visitors during the exhibition.
Apart from the information, photos and stories displayed at the exhibition, it also features some in-depth discussion via “Window of Love offline” on related-sexual and reproductive health issues.
Goals
The exhibition is expected to increase adolescents and young people’s access to comprehensive and quality information on sexual and reproductive health. Therefore, they are well informed about the issues and are empowered to protect themselves from HIV and STIs infection, avoid unintended pregnancy, and recognize their reproductive health and gender rights.
Besides, the exhibition will help to open the dialogue between young people and their parents, teachers and communities at large.
Duration
The exhibition will run for six months, from November 2013 to April 2014 at the Viet Nam Museum of Ethnology and is open to everyone.
View the Joint Media Release and the Speech of the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Viet Nam
More information?
Please contact UNESCO Hanoi Office at email: registry@unesco.org.vn
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