Observing the efforts of other organizations, we have seen a great need for an endemic, consistent, multi-faceted presence to serve the needs of youths in order to break ground in the fight against AIDS and Youth Violence. Where other organizations have attempted to disseminate awareness propaganda or distribute prevention and care services, they have not established a lasting presence among the people, nor did their efforts assimilate to the particular culture and environment of the populations they served. Too often, these temporary outposts leave before the villagers and townspeople learn to trust or rely on their assistance. 

Entelechy shall emphasize on testimonies of HIV/AIDS and violence victims who come from the areas where our campaign will be taking place.  This is a consequence of our realization of the fact that while almost every sexually active youth has heard of the HIV/AIDS scourge, there is a tendency to treat it as a disease of “the other”. This, it is now emerging, has partly been due to the fact that many of the youth don’t seem to have examples of victims of HIV/AIDS whom they can identify with and thus ponder twice and again on whether HIV/AIDS could “after all be real”.  Entelechy, Inc.’s position of the social character of the HIV/AIDS scourge is instructive here.  We have noted that funeral orations in Africa always attribute the deceased’s death to diseases that, in the minds of the audience, are other than HIV/AIDS.  Thus, very few of the mourners ever leave the gravesite with the conviction that the deceased was dispatched to the grave through the HIV/AIDS corridor.  Hence, the weapon provided by the power of example has not been resourceful in the war against the HIV/AIDS epidemic.   This is why we think that there is need for an increased campaign to solicit more volunteers who will deliver testimonies of their status, with the conclusive warning that “the same can happen to you, brother/sister”.   This is one area where Entelechy Inc. feels very strongly that the anthropology of social change must now be brought into tandem with the dialectical reality of the African situation.