Raleigh, NC —Mike Long, one of America’s abstinence education pioneers, announced today that he is taking his nationally acclaimed “Everyone Is NOT Doing It” program international.  Long will be traveling throughout Uganda training and speaking on his “directive” education approach Nov. 21 – Dec. 5, 2009.

“The AIDS epidemic has taken its toll on the nation of Uganda along with other African nations,” Long said.  “However, Uganda has begun to dramatically reverse the spread of this deadly disease thanks to widely accepted abstinence education programs being taught in schools, churches, and universities.”

What has been lacking and therefore desperately needed is effective training on how to implement and teach abstinence programs.  That’s where Long’s 25 years of experience in training over 50,000 educators and youth leaders throughout America will be most helpful.

Long will be training parents, teachers, pastors, and youth leaders how to get on a teenager’s level, meeting teenagers where they are in their culture, and directing them into making smart, healthy decisions while building respect, responsibility, maturity, discipline, and good character.

“Needless to say, the culture is very different in Uganda which is another reason why I wanted to go there – to learn for myself how the universal message of sexual abstinence until marriage can be taught and embraced as the standard in the lives of young people throughout the world,” Long said.

Long will be speaking to students in schools throughout the capital city of Kampala and into surrounding remote areas.  He will also be speaking in churches and on radio programs.