TCE - Total Control of the Epidemic  Award Winning Teams Start July 1st and August 1st

TCE - Total Control of the Epidemic is a program from HOPE Humana People to People in the fight against AIDS in Southern Africa. TCE has been awarded the AGFUND prize as the best pioneering development project in the fight against AIDS. The prize of 150,000 US $ will be handed over to Humana People to People by Prince Talal Bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia at an official ceremony held at the Headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva in November 2000.

TCE has been chosen because it is efficient and cost effective, because the program is ambitious enough to match the enormous size of the AIDS problem and because of its basic principles and sensible implementation approach.

TCE was launched at the National Summit for Africa in Washington in February 2000. At the same time the first TCE Field Officers were employed in the first TCE district: Bindura in Zimbabwe.

Only people can liberate themselves from AIDS - the epidemic.

Everybody else can only participate.

On this simple line Humana People to People has developed a people's liberation system to be put in place in most parts of the Southern Africa in order to gain - area by area total control of the epidemic.

The TCE Award Winning Team will start at The Travelling Folk High School in Holsted in Denmark and at CCTG in USA.  The 11-12 month program is divided into 3 periods:

4 months preparation course at the school.

6 months participation in the TCE program in Southern Africa.

1-2 months information work with the school as a base.

 

About the TCE Program

TCE is a program that systematically takes hold of the AIDS epidemic. A country is divided into districts - each district is divided into areas. In each area there are 100,000 people.

A TCE area employ 50 local TCE Officers to participate in the 3 years the program takes. The TCE Field Officers are school teachers, housewives, students - human beings with a great hearth for their fellow humans and ready to make a personal effort in the struggle to get the AIDS epidemic under control.

AIDS is 100 % fatal

AIDS is 100 % preventable

Each TCE Field Officer has the responsibility of 2000 people. On foot or on bicycle they will visit each person in the area - again and again. They will inform about HIV/AIDS, how it is transmitted, what it does to the body and how people can prevent it. They will encourage all to get to know their HIV status. They will assist HIV positive in how to live positive.

They will basically mobilize each and every individual in the community to know and to act. Together with each individual, the TCE Field Officer will make a plan for what he or she must do so that all take part in getting the epidemic under control.

The healthy must look after the orphans, grow vegetables for the sick, care for the terminal ill, council the youth, teach the children in how to avoid getting infected, etc.

The HIV positive must take good care of themselves. They need medicine, to eat well and have a healthy lifestyle and a good social network so they can live for many years. The need courses in "Positive Living".

The terminal ill must be taken well care of so they get a worthy death.

 

In each area people are organized in neighborhood committees that can help and support each other. All are involved. The struggle to liberate the area from the epidemic is a common cause.

The 50 TCE Field Officers in an area works under the leadership of the 2 Area Leaders, one Project Leader and Humana People to People from its HQ in Zimbabwe.

The first TCE area started in Zimbabwe in February 2000. Since then a second area has opened in Zimbabwe and new areas are close to be opened in Zambia, Botswana, Mozambique and Namibia. The need is enormous, the response to the program is positive from the people as well as donors.

There is plenty of well-known stuff in the TCE strategy. What is new is that so many global forces work hand in hand to get control of the epidemic and that there is a unanimous agreement that action is needed NOW.

What has to be realized is that without these global forces the people cannot win it’s freedom from the epidemic.

BUT - and there is a BUT here - these forces - be they as generous and understanding and resourceful as they certainly are - cannot reach their goals without the organized and collective forces of the threatened peoples of the world.

So, there is no time to waste!

Just jump to the conclusion: It is now! It is you!

The preparation course takes place at the Travelling Folk High School in Holsted.

Here the international team will be trained to take part in the TCE work in Africa - practical and theoretical. You will study the global AIDS situation and the consequences this has to people and nations. You will learn about development especially in Southern Africa. You will learn about Humana People to People and the TCE strategy. You will train practical project skills, communication skills, human skills, artistic skills, organizational skills and technical skills. You will take part in fundraising. And you will do physical training to be fit for the work.

During these 6 months you will be attached to a TCE area in Southern Africa. This can be in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana or Namibia - depending on the circumstances when you are ready to go. We wish to keep the location open due to the rapid development of the program. Your will work in a TCE area together with 50 TCE Field Officers. Your job will be as an Area Leader together with an African counterpart. This involves implementing the TCE program in the whole area with 100,000 people. You will be training the TCE Field Officers during weekly meetings and take part in the door-to-door visits. You will develop the individual programs for the people, analyze the situation in the area and initiate new actions to improve the efficiency of the mission. You will participate in organizing Neighborhood Committees and identify their role in the community. You mobilize the people to start clubs, courses, training, actions and campaigns - children, youths and adults - and all along the way you will be a role model yourself.

Having participated in the TCE program you will spent this third period to spread information about the work with one main purpose: To make people in our part of the world understand the size of the problem and the need to participate in the solution and to touch them to an extend so they realize that they must participate and actually get up and do so. And you will illustrate how they can participate.

This period is also for you to conclude where you stand as a team and as individuals. What have you learnt and how will you utilize this now and in your future. You can be sure, that taking part for one year in the TCE program will change your life forever!

53,1 million people in the world has been infected by HIV - the virus causing AIDS.

18,8 million people have died.

34,3 million people live with HIV/AIDS today.

25 million people in Africa south of Sahara are HIV positive.

70 % of all new infections over the past year has been in Africa south of Sahara - where only 10 % of the world population lives.

In 6 countries in Africa more than 10 % of the population are infected.

I 7 countries in Africa between 20 and 25 % of the population is infected - e.g. Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Botswana and Namibia. In Botswana the figure is 35,8 %.

There are today 7,8 million children in Africa having lost one or both parents to AIDS.

The Travelling Folk High School in Holsted, Denmark and CCTG USA

Humana People to People,  Development Instructor Programmes, Att: Stina Herberg

Ph + 45 28 26 58 00

Hello,  I am Esther from Holland, I am just back from working 
with the TCE programme in Zimbabwe. I say go for it! Read my story here