Speaker Tour
2016
Role
Tour Speaker (Global South)
About
We are looking for a young, passionate speaker from
the Global South to join us on our annual Youth
Stop AIDS Speaker Tour.
In this voluntary role, you will tour the UK, to
help bring to life the issues behind the HIV/AIDS
pandemic by telling your personal story to students
and decision-makers and inspiring them to take
action. As well as telling your story at speaker
events, the tour group will also take part and
support student campaigning activities across the
UK.
Timings and
dates
You will be in the UK for approximately 3 weeks
from mid-February to early March. You will have at
least one full day off on each weekend, and one day
with some travel or activities required.
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Speaker Tour training
Speaker Tour week 1 (Scotland)
Speaker Tour week 2 (North England and
Midlands)
Speaker Tour week 3 (Southern England and
Parliamentary events)
Please note these dates may be subject to some
changes.
Location
Travel throughout the UK
Remuneration This is an unpaid voluntary position. However the
following costs will be covered directly by
Restless Development:
Travel to UK: Travel and visa costs (if needed) to
and from the UK will be covered by Restless
Development.
Accommodation: Basic accommodation will be provided
during the Speaker Tour which will be a mix of
hostels and our volunteers providing their own
accommodation for us. Sometimes this may require
sleeping on sofa’s or the floor with sleeping
bags/mats but we will try to make sure there are
beds wherever possible.
Travel in the UK: All travel within the UK will be
covered. This will be a mix of trains, cars and
other public transport. Where possible, national
speakers will have the opportunity to return home
at weekends.
Food: Food will be provided during the team
training, and a food allowance will be given from
the start of the actual Speaker Tour.
Phone: You will be provided with a UK pay as you go
sim card with £20 credit upon arrival in the UK to
contact Speaker Tour team members and staff. You
will need to pay for any phone use over and above
this amount. We will ensure where possible there is
access to Skype and internet during the Speaker
Tour.
Context
Youth Stop AIDS
Youth Stop AIDS is made up young people across the
UK who believe that the world’s response to the HIV
pandemic is insufficient and unacceptable.
As part of the STOPAIDS campaign, Youth Stop AIDS
works to bring about the changes in national and
international policy which will turn the tide on
the spread of HIV and minimise its devastating
impact on people and communities around the world.
Key to the work of Youth Stop AIDS is the
understanding and belief that young people have the
potential and capacity to fight for global issues,
becoming highly skilled and effective activists.
For more information about Youth Stop AIDS please
visit the website: http://youthstopaids.org/
Our vision
Our underlying vision is to ensure there is
universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care
and support across the world.
We want to see the reversal and ultimate ending of
the HIV/AIDS pandemic through the promotion of
universal access to evidence-based prevention and
affordable treatment and through long term and
sustainable care and support.
We want governments, global institutions and
corporations to put the life-saving needs of people
before profit and commercial interests.
We want to see a world free from stigma and
discrimination through increased global awareness
and education.
How we make change happen
We work to bring about change through raising
awareness, political lobbying, public engagement
and corporate action. We target those who have the
power to make a difference, engage people and
communities who can leverage change, and work for
the adoption of innovative solutions. We confront
governments, institutions and corporations to bring
an end to the injustice surrounding HIV/AIDS by
ensuring that they live up to the promise of
delivering universal access.
Decision-makers in government, institutions and
pharmaceutical companies have the resources and the
responsibility to make the changes we want to see
happen. In our work, we make sure that our campaign
demands are clearly heard by decision-makers, and
we pressure them to translate these demands into
real action.
Youth Stop AIDS website: http://youthstopaids.org/
Youth Stop AIDS Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/YouthStopAIDS/
Restless Development
Restless Development, the youth-led development
agency, coordinates Youth Stop AIDS.
Restless Development website:
http://restlessdevelopment.org/
The Speaker
Tour
The Youth Stop AIDS Speaker Tour
Each year Youth Stop AIDS brings the voices of
young people affected by HIV or AIDS from across
the world to the UK. This year we would like to
extend the speaker invitation to people living with
Tuberculosis and Hepatitis C Virus as well and
particularly those affected by HIV and Hep C or HIV
and TB.
Our current campaign is focused around the problems
with our current profit-driven medical innovation
system for researching and developing new
medicines. The current model means 2 things 1) that
poorer people’s health needs and largely ignored
and 2) the medicines produced are priced too high.
This is the reason why we don’t have adequate HIV
paediatric drugs, or better medicines for
Tuberculosis and why new drugs to treat Hepatitis C
cost $1000 a pill in some countries. We need a new
system and this is what our new campaign is all
about.
There is nothing more powerful than hearing the
true-life stories of people affected by these
diseases and the failings of this system to
motivate people to take action and change this
reality.
The Speaker Tour will visit around 15-20
Universities across the UK within a three week
period, with a proposed visit to DFID (Department
for International Development) and to the Houses of
Parliament to engage with key UK decision makers.
The Speaker Tour aims to engage and inspire young
people in the UK to take action to help tackle the
pandemic. As well as telling your story at
afternoon and evening speaker events, we will be
taking part in regional campaign activities
alongside our student campaigners on campuses and
in cities across the UK.
Personal
Qualities,
Skills and
Experience
The successful applicant will have the following:
Personal Qualities
 Positive mental attitude
 Open minded and culturally aware
 Independent
 Flexible
 Belief in the role of young people as activists
 Belief in the potential of Youth Stop AIDS
Skills and Experience
 Leadership skills
 Proven ability to engage, motivate and inspire
others
 Ability to work as part of a team and to get on
with others
 Excellent communication skills: an articulate
and confident public speaker
 Experience of and commitment to grassroots AIDS,
TB, HCV activism
 Excellent knowledge of national (i.e. from your
country) and global issues around HIV and AIDS,
TB and HCV
 Good knowledge of key debates around access to
HIV prevention, treatment, care and support
Other Criteria:
 Be aged 18-32
 Speak fluent English
We are especially keen to have applications from:
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Description
of role
Young people living with HIV, Tuberculosis
and/or Hepatitis C Virus
Young people from Middle Income Countries
Your role will be to work as part of a team of two
speakers, alongside a Restless Development staff
member and driver, visiting universities around the
UK. You will deliver a twenty minute talk on why
HIV, Tuberculosis is important to you and how it
has affected your life, your community, country and
region. The aim of the talk will be to share your
story and educate and inspire the audience to
become active AIDS campaigners. The talks will also
involve question and answer sessions with the
university audience. We will either visit one or
two universities per day.
You will also take part in regional campaigning
activities and activism during the daytime
alongside our student volunteers – this will
include public engagement, campaign stalls, action
cards signing, flashmobs, and publicity stunts.
Typical type of day on the Speaker Tour:
7am
- Get up/breakfast
8am
- Travel to University
11am - Meeting up with student volunteers/briefing
for day activities.
12pm
1pm
- Flashmob on campus (for example)
- Lunch
2pm - Head into town centre to do street campaign
stall (for example)
4pm
- Relax and prepare for evening
5.30pm
- Speaker stories (start time 6pm)
8.30pm
- Relax and get to know students/dinner
(Please note that there will be challenges
associated with the Speaker Tour. We will do our
best to accommodate these but you must approach
this with an open mind. Please also remember the
student activists will be giving up their own time
to accommodate and look after us, and organise the
events and activities.)
Residential Training & Preparation:
In order to prepare you for the Speaker Tour we
will be holding a 4 day training session. You will
be working with the other speaker and staff members
to develop your confidence and trust to be able to
get to know each other as a team. We will develop
your story with you and make sure that you are
confident in telling it. We will also train you on
the campaigns we are currently running, and some
key activist skill areas that will come in handy
for the Speaker Tour, like street campaigning and
taking part in stunts.
You must be willing to talk openly about HIV and/or
Tuberculosis and/or Hepatitis C Virus and be
dedicated to inspiring young people to take action.
You will be required to communicate key messages
about our fight for change to young people and the
public, and must be committed to taking part in
both the speaker events and the campaigning
activities.
Application
process
Application forms for the International Speaker
role can be downloaded here:
http://youthstopaids.org/speaker-tour-2016/
Please complete the application form by Sunday 15th
November 2015.
Email completed applications to Anna at
annar@restlessdevelopment.org
Interviews will provisionally take place from 16th
– 20th November 2014.