GOLD’s Footprint

Current Regional Foot Print
GOLD Peer Education is being implemented at varying levels of regional maturation in 3 countries in Southern Africa. These include:

SOUTH AFRICA
The Western Cape - implemented by 12 implementing organisations working in 61 secondary schools and community sites.
Kwa-Zulu Natal - implemented by 7 implementing organisations working in 26 secondary schools and community sites.
Mpumalanga - implemented by 4 implementing organisations working in 17 secondary schools and community sites.

BOTSWANA
Implemented by 5 implementing organisations working in 19 secondary schools and community sites.

ZAMBIA
Implemented by 5 implementing organisations in 15 community sites.

Existing reach in RSA and Botswana:

• 33 community implementing organisations in 138 secondary schools and communities
• 240 facilitators
• Over 8000 teenage and young adult peer educators

Future Regional Foot Print
GOLD aims to strengthen and expand their services and reach within each of the 3 existing countries. A multiplication strategy is being developed in 2011 to implement from 2012  that will enable the learnings from the GOLD peer education model to be scaled up in under served communities new other countries within a shorter spacer of time.