Today I spent some quality time (yet again!) with a group of youth who are choosing to spend their holiday break singing, dancing, and performing together, and to use these activities to teach about HIV/AIDS prevention.
One of the MVP's initiatives in Rwanda addresses MDG 6 to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and other diseases by using theater as a powerful tool to educate and promote behavior change. Similar to the roots of Haba na Haba (a performing group in Kenya with whom I studied and filmed last summer), this project uses football matches as opportunities to convey messages to a wide audience.
This morning, I sat with MVP's coordinator of evaluation and documentation as we went through several hours of footage they shot recently with various sectors of the program. We imported footage of beekeeping training and practice, an initiative to teach farmers how to grow mushrooms, the recent utilization of farm equipment to increase productivity, and various shots to encourage the increasing cultivation of drought-resistant crops.
This program gets more interesting every day, and it will be a HUGE challenge to get a comprehensive understanding, while still being able to portray it in a concise way.
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