Operates In: Zambia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, India, Nepal
Our Mission: To mobilise young volunteers to empower rural youth to take control over their own lives and shape the future of their communities.
To see that young people's energy and talents are valued and harnessed so that they take a lead role in the development process.
What We Do: SPW is an international development charity that recruits and trains young adults (aged 18-28) as volunteer Peer Educators, to lead programmes that address urgent health and environmental issues in Africa and Asia.
SPW currently has more than 800 volunteer Peer Educators in the field reaching 400,000 young people each year.
We believe that trained young people, living for long periods of time in rural communities, are best positioned to communicate life saving information, demonstrate Appropriate Rural Technologies and lead comprehensive behaviour change programmes that bring about improved livelihoods for young people and their families including:
* Lower HIV infection rates
* Better health outcomes
* Improved use of community resources