Press conference organized by my group PONTON to promote the summer hotline for teenagers. From the left: me, group coordinator Ola, sexologist expert Alicja, and PONTON volunteer Marta

My group has launched a summer project called "Summer Emergency Hotline." Every day until the end of September a volunteer has a four-hour duty during which she or he answers phone calls, or calls people back to talk to them if they don't have enough money to make a longer call on a cell phone, or answers questions posted through text messages.

Our objective is to provide information about sexuality, contraception and prevention. We though that a phone hotline would be a good addition to our usual method of answering quaestion through emails, especially in the summer, when young people are spending time away from home, and Internet access.

To promote the action, we organized a press conference. The announcements about the hotline have been posted on the websites of other NGOs, and on the radio. Some journalists from dailies and TV became more interested in the project and took some additional photos, and arranged interviews with our group coordinator. We also had stickers with the telephone number printed and placed in buses and clubs.

So far the hotline has been very popular.