ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses the heart of the Better Life Options Program (BLP) and the key element which was the community-based peer education intervention that developed. It illustrates how community-based education work can flow from, and sit within community development and social service delivery work. The chapter discusses weaving of analysis around some of the challenges of initiating and maintaining a community-based education and training initiative that keeps issues of power central to its gaze and methods. It is posited that such a gaze requires an understanding of community-based training as craft. This community-based education and training initiative is a part of a peer education reproductive health programme in South Africa called the Better Life Options Program (BLP), run by the South African National Council of Young Men's Christian Associations (YMCAs). The South African National Council of YMCAs is an indigenous membership-based youth organisation working throughout South Africa.
