Fondation Madeleine Sanam - Our programs

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Our Workshops in Community Health

Since its inception in 1999, the foundation has diligently worked with and advocated for African and Caribbean immigrant women by delivering cutting edge social and educational training packages across Edmonton. The foundation has continuously developed and delivered a culturally sensitive HIV/AIDS training programs to promote discussion, increase sexual health awareness, and provide training tools for participants to become peer educators within their communities.

The courses are presented each third and fourth Saturday of each month, at the Faculté Saint-Jean, 8406 Marie-Anne Gaboury Street (91 Street), from 9 am to 4 pm.

The cost is 30$ per class for our members and 40$ for non-members, it costs 10$ to become a member and $20 for organizational members.

Classes longer than 7 hours in a day are 50$ per day for members and 60$ for non-members. To register, please fill the register form

HIV/AIDS

This workshop is part of our priorities because HIV/AIDS is a serious issue, not only in the African community living in Edmonton, but also among the recent immigrant population.

The program teaches the participants the basic knowledge about HIV/AIDS so they can help their people who are infected or affected by the AIDS virus in Alberta, but also to help those who have family having this disease in Africa. This course aims to create a strong team of instructors consisting of native Albertans and Afro-Albertans. This class is given each third and fourth Saturday of the month.

HIV/AIDS 101

This base course of 3 hours can be followed by 10 participants.

It is a requirement to all the other courses on HIV/AIDS and it gives the recent information on the disease. It covers the following subjects:

Introduction to AIDS/HIV
HIV transmission, prevention and treatment
Problems Reduction
Support to the infected people.

Train the Trainers

This course is given in two days. This workshop reinforces the “train the trainer” approach, developing leadership while allowing the participants to express their own ideas and give a presentation in their own culture and language. The objective of this course objective is to ensure:

an understanding in prevention
HIV transmission and treatments
knowledge on how to reduce its propagation.

HIV/AIDS and African women

African women are the most infected in the world. The formal and informal polygamy and poverty confronts women to high risks. Some values and beliefs represent a menace to the prevention and the fight against HIV/AIDS. The cultural approach is preferred as it awakens an interest and an understanding among the participants. This course covers:

Women’s attitude towards their cheating husbands and boyfriends
How to take back the power
The difficulties women are facing
Strategies to defeat cultures and protect ourselves
Course length: 3 hours

HIV/AIDS and African men
What makes men more vulnerable?

Everywhere in the world men seem to have more sexual partners than women. This makes them more at risk to be infected by HIV. This course is mandatory because it is an opportunity to talk about traditional sexual behaviours which put men at risk. The cultural approach is preferred to ensure a good understanding by the participants. The course covers:

The role and responsibilities of men in the propagation reduction and at the same time, of the VIH/AIDS menace
The traditional consequences as factors of the VIH/AIDS menace
Consequences of HIV/AIDS in their everyday life
The benefit of modifications
Course length: 3 hours

Health determinants - HIV/AIDS

The health determinants are the key factors known to be able to influence and act on population health. The course objectives are to understand the impact of diverse social, economic and physical factors on health and collective well-being. We want to make the participants aware of these determinants of HIV/AIDS and other STD (sexually transmitted disease). The course covers:

Women income and situation
Poverty and inequalities
Education
Access to health care
Individual Rights
Social/migration perturbations
Course length: 3 hours