Intro
The population of Botswana is being ravaged by the effects of HIV/AIDS and whereas several campaigns have been carried out to curb the spread of this disease, infection rates continue to rise. We believe that through the Christian faith, the situation can be turned around as people find through faith, the moral strength to change their life styles. The Face The Nation (F.T.N) program of the Open Baptist Church, Gaborone (O.B.C), Botswana, is a Christian response to this national disaster.

Our Goals and Strategy
Our vision is to recruit and train available Christian students from the University of Botswana (U.B) who go to the senior secondary schools as volunteers during the university’s long winter break (May to August). These students have to be convinced about and live a life style of sexual purity. They are to assist in the fight against HIV/AIDS through a program geared largely toward behavioral change and sexual purity (abstinence). They are deployed in schools in teams to teach life skills in the classrooms;help with sporting and other extra curricular activities; work closely with the Scripture Union (S.U) groups in the schools; build relationships with the students and most importantly to live Christ on the school campuses.

Our Target Group
Our target group is the senior secondary school students (ages 16 -20) because we believe that “Lore lo ojwa lo sale metsi”, a Setswana saying that means the best time to teach something to a child is when they are still young, which is also in line with Proverbs 22:6 “Train a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.” We also feel that this age group will relate better to any message on HIV/AIDS and teenage pregnancies if it came from an age group closer to their own.