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Tomas Rehak - National Director
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In the Czech Republic ACET offers health education
focused on young people - those most at risk from unplanned
pregnancy, HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. This
project works in partnership with the Ministry of Health and
Ministry of Education. In five years ACET has trained fifty-five volunteers who have delivered education in schools
in seventy-five per cent of the towns and cities in the country. 640,000 students in Czech republic have already heard ACET lessons. In 2004 ACET educators visited 252 cities, towns and villages: 604 schools. They did 3,773 hours of lectures (for free), attended by 74,280 students. The classes are all taken by volunteers and the team is overwhelmed by demand from schools. Many pupils see an ACET educator two or three times during the
year. Over 70,000 copies have been sold of a book on sexual
health by Stuart Angus.
Czech team reaches 475,000 pupils
Tomas Rehak reports huge demand for values-based sex education in the Czech Republic and now in other neighbouring countries. He spoke recently in 19 cities in just one month. The ACET Czech team are struggling to fulfil all requests from schools, seeing around 65,000 pupils a year with some support from Czech churches. Around half of all teenagers in the Czech Republic have seen an ACET educator at least once during their education.
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Tomas continues to visit Russia around 3-4 times a year to support the national training programme of ACET Russia, equipping educators in many different cities. He has also recently returned from the Ukraine where programmes have been run by people from ACET teams in Russia, Czech Republic, Slovakia and England. As a result ACET Ukraine has started work. Now Tomas has requests from many other former Eastern Bloc countries who are looking to set up similar programmes. Tomas visited Croatia for the first time in Spring 2002, again in Autumn 2002 and now ACET Croatia has been launched, a country at risk from drug-related spread of HIV. Recenty a group of volunteers collected around 70kgs of needles and syringes lying on the ground in a park. Tomas has also helped set up ACET Belarus.
Website: Czech website: http://acet.wz.cz/
ACET Czech Republic Taborska 1047, 539 01 Hlinsko Czech Republic
Map and country facts from: World Factbook
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