Life Talk launches programme in township schools to stop teen drinking

South African NGO Life Talk is launching a pilot programme in five Gauteng schools to reduce teen drinking. The peer education programme, called 'Speak Up!', is being run in conjunction with Khulisa and SANCA Horizon, and is being funded by alcohol beverage company Brandhouse at schools in Soweto and Daveyton. Life Talk intends to extend the programme to more schools in Gauteng, and then nationally, once the findings have been gathered from this pilot project.