The expected output was achieved, as a total of 514 peer educators aged between 15 - 30 years were trained between 1998 and 2000.
Four of the eight facilities had groundBREAKERS (volunteer peer educators aged 18-25 years) trained and supported by loveLife to promote safe sexual behaviour and HIV prevention by engaging with young people in schools, clinics, youth centres and youth groups [ 36].
Table 5 indicates that half the Australian educators were aged between 20 and 39 years.
As is also evident from national data [ 16], the prevalence of obesity was significantly higher in female educators, increased with age, and was also higher in those living in urban areas.
31 32 Peer educators between the ages of 15 and 18 years were elected from the youth group by the members, while facilitators were the usual youth group leaders.
Compounding educators' problems are aging school buildings.
The Digital Literacy Library, as the new site is being called, is aimed at educators of children aged 11 to 18, and address topics like privacy, reputation, identity exploration, security, safety, wellbeing and more.
The members of the Anti-AIDS (locally known as Edzi Toto Clubs) are supposed to act as peer educators for their age-mates.
Yet as the dot-com millionaires come of age, parents, educators and mental health professionals worry that the sense of entitlement that has long characterized the proverbial indolent trust-funder will flourish.
The platform really lends itself to visual communication, and I believe language educators in the digital age can really benefit from bringing infographics and similar multimodal texts into their teaching.
