At a crucial point in their development, young people in most countries around the world struggle to access sound information about sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and safety while being exposed to inappropriate digital content.
Many parents do not know how to address these taboo topics. In addition, schools, especially in lowincome countries, often lack a modern and comprehensive sexuality education curriculum. This leads to life-changing consequences such as unwanted pregnancy, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, as well as limitations on personal and economic potential for too many young people around the globe!
SOLUTION
The taboobreaker association has therefore developed the multi-channel program Love Land. Love Land is based on an appealing learning world with different islands that contain topics of SRH. The program includes:
• The mobile app Love Land for individual learning
• The website loveland.game providing additional learning content
• The Train-the-Trainer program Love Land, which is used for Train-the-Trainer workshops that support people working with adolescents teaching sexual education.
Love Land integrates the great potential of gamified analog and digital learning, that offers young people an age-appropriate acquisition of relevant knowledge, decision-making and communication skills in terms of content, method and media.
The content is based on UNESCO's International technical guidance on sexuality education. To proof the impact of Love Land, a dedicated team of the University of Cape Town (UCT) under the lead of Prof. Dr. Catherine Ward will conduct a randomised controlled trial.
POTENTIAL
• Love Land is a globally applicable and age-appropriate learning program, both for individual use and for school systems and health ministries in the public sector.
• The Love Land app is continuously expandable in terms of content and, thanks to geolocation, can be linked to local offers of help.
• Digital solutions in health and education are also increasingly enabling countries with severely limited financial resources to accelerate their development and provide global access. Smartphone ownership is also increasing exponentially in these countries.
CURRENT STATUS
The app is available in the iOS and Android store with three languages. The train-the-trainer program is in the pilot phase in cooperation with the UCT. The website is up to date reflecting the current content of the app.
LONG-TERM GOAL
The app is to be available globally free of charge
The Train-the-Trainer program is to be scaled up More topic islands and more languages are to be developed
ABOUT TABOOBREAKER
The non-profit association taboobreaker was founded by Karin Stierlin and focuses on the development of gamified multi-channel learning programs fostering young peoples health.
Karin Stierlin Initiator and Founder JP Vuilleumier DirectorSymposium with Digital Health Week 2022
We introduced the Love Land App to over 200 virtual and in-person registered participants and brought together key players in the field of education and SRH to discuss the optimisation of SRH for adolescents and young people globally.
Love Land in Deutsche Welle TV
We were accompanied by a TV team while developing a new island for the prevention of gender based violence for Love Land with a group of teenage pupils.
Pro bono support by Costello Medical
Costello medical will evaluate the Socio- economic impact and the cost- effectiveness of Love Land via an SROI and CEM on pro-bono base.
Love Land in Swiss TV 10 vor 10
The Swiss SRF correspondent Cristina Karrer and her team visited us in South Africa for a documentation for the Swiss television program 10 vor 10 (Aug 2022)
Annual Report 2022
Which milestones have we reached in 2022? Which people support us with their know-how? This and much more can be found in our annual report.
Promotion video
Our vision, concept, and collaboration partners in an animated and appealing 3.5 minutes video.
www.taboobreaker.org
Find out more about the taboobreaker association and the people behind it by checking out our brand new website
www.loveland.game
This website is the extension of our app and offers interested (young) people additional knowledge around the topics addressed in the app - appealingly and simply explained in our tutorial videos.
Love Land- the App
The app is currently available in English, French and Afrikaans in the Google Play Store and iOS Store. Have fun discovering Love Land (click icon to download)
