What is Peer Education? What are the benefits of Peer Education?
It’s simple: Peer = Friends, Education = Learning, Peer Education = Learning from your friends or other people like you!
If you volunteer as a young person with LANDED and deliver training to other young people – you are peer educating!
Being a peer educator can have lots of benefits…
“LANDED is great. Being a peer educator has helped me a lot. I’m more confident in myself nowadays, the people I’ve met there are fantastic and you also get a sense of accomplishment knowing that you are helping out.” – Greig, age 18
“I think that because the message is being given by people almost the same age as them then the young people will respond to that.” – James, age 18