While implementing our activities, Zidan Benevolence International has learnt that for positive change to be effected, individuals need to be facilitated to understand how to apply the twin motivating force of “fear and pleasure” to achieve good results. This in our experience helps individuals to examine their perceptions and how perceptions lead to their attitudes and behavior. Community sensitization and mobilization, which is the provision of information, Education and Communication (IEC) to communities to ensure their participation, contribution and involvement in solving a common problem, through change of knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) is very crucial for the success of any program/project. We have learnt that equipping young people with life skills should be accompanied with programs seeking to sensitize their parents/guardians, teachers and community members. Sustainability of this Project/Program will only be achieved if the community and the beneficiaries themselves recognize it as a goal and if they contribute adequately to the process, rather than as an aspiration of the implementing agency. 

The problem to be addressed therefore is the negative modes of behavior that expose people to risks of life such as HIV/AIDS infection and its shattering effects on human development. There are two causes to this problem. First, the Youth lack adequate knowledge of the cause-effect inter-relationship of life situations. Secondly, people especially youth lack adequate life skills to translate the knowledge and information of what to do into how to do it and how to access and utilize the enabling factors of doing it. In many societies/communities, children orphaned to HIV/AIDS suffer problems such as social distress, isolation, shame, fear and rejection that often surround people infected with HIV.

There is therefore a need for confidentiality and privacy in regard to their HIV status that should be recognized. Young people experience orphan hood at the age when parental guidance and support is most needed; they suffer loss of love, and innocently taking care of their infected parents before they die. Often they are denied education and health services especially because their extended families cannot afford them. In this regard therefore, Zidan Benevolence International wishes to address these community needs through strengthening HIV/AIDs prevention strategies and interventions and promote economic strengthening among PLHIV. This project is relevant to the strategic objectives of Zidan Benevolence International, and therefore it’s an opportunity for the organization to deliver its objectives, while at the same time making contribution to the national and global goal in the context of HIV prevention in Uganda and the world at large.