"I live with my mother who is a single parent. In my spare time I sell vegetables and go to church because I believe that I have been saved from my sins. I am also a peer educator at Sakulutsha-loveLife in Motherwell. I feel I have been given a second chance as I've had many bad experiences, especially in my sexual life.

"I was once involved with a lady whom I loved very much but she was more experienced than me in love, relationships and sex. My friends wanted to know if and when I would ask this girl to have sex with me. When I told them I hadn't had sex with her and didn't plan on asking her yet they thought I was behind and stupid and all that. So that really put me under pressure. Then I decided to invite her over to my house, to get this thing over and done with. We finally had sex and I wanted to do it again and again because it was so good. I was on cloud 9.

"But after about 3 or 4 days I noticed that my penis had sores on it and it hurt when I peed. I told my friends about this and they told me all sorts of stories - that if I went to the clinic my penis would be hit with a stick and everything. So I decided not to go, until I met a guy from loveLife who told me there was no such thing.

"So I went to the clinic and I was healed and I became a peer educator. That is why I believe I've been given a second chance because I could have contracted HIV or AIDS and made my family suffer in the process. I told my (ex) girlfriend about my infection and she just ignored me and decided to dump me."

Lonwabo works with the loveLife "S'camto" program which trains crews of teens to make video documentaries in which they interview other teens about sex and other issues. About S’camto: "I feel it is a privilege for me to work with celebrities and to be able to speak in front of cameras. I really learned a lot. Some teenagers' experiences were really heartbreaking. Sometimes in my hotel room I would cry when I think about them and my friends would ask what was wrong and I would say I was sick or something.

"You know when we were staying there it was like we had known one another for years, we were like one big happy family and it was really sad when we went home our separate ways. It was like losing something really valuable to me. Sometimes I think about them and we call each other very often.

"The advice I would like to give to the youth is they need to accept themselves as they are and to respect and love their bodies and lastly, they are in control of their own destinies."