Children’s Voices, Children as Innovators: A Poetic Representation of Children’s Experiences Learning About HIV/AIDS Through a Child-to-Child Curriculum Approach

Abstract

This paper reports how children experienced and reflected on issues of sexual health and the risks of HIV infection as well as providing glimpses of their narratives of empowerment, created as a result of the child-to-child approach which was implemented in a grade four classroom in a rural Kenyan school. The children felt, it is time to break the taboos around open discussion of HIV/AIDS. Their words, in the found poems in this paper, illustrate how capable these children are of initiating this vital change.