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             · If someone would pay us a penny for the number of ideas we came up for our global issues project, we would be millionaires today. Vihari's original idea was to help abused woman by setting up a support group, and I originally wanted to deal with art and somehow incorporating that into a charity. But as I said before, those were one of the many ideas we came up with. A friend of mine offered an idea, that I should do an AIDS awareness campaign in SAS because it was such a huge worldwide epidemic. Vihari was also drawn to the idea of holding a campaign based in SAS community, so we joined forces and started researching. But as we researched deeper into the AIDS issue, we realized that the major cause for the virus's spread was due to a lack of safe sex practices. Vihari and I were shocked at the rate at which AIDS was spreading around the world, and this epidemic was no longer something that we only heard about in news, but something that could undoubtedly affect our friends, family, and possibly ourselves. We live in a country, and study in a school that protects us from war, violence and poverty, and we are incredibly lucky to live in such an environment. However it's easy to forget the invisible dangers such as AIDS, or STD's. Being in a high school filled with 900 high school students, one cannot ignore the fact that many high schoolers' are sexually active, and could possibly not be aware about the risks they faced, if they did not practice safe sex. So our project, yet again changed it route, and we decided that we needed to work on a bigger emphasis on sex education in SAS.
             We started to research the current state of sex education in SAS through surveys of middle school and high school teachers and interviews. We also examined the school's health curriculum, and looked through the curriculum's history and course outline. We found that each health class incorporated
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