We use child centred approaches to:

• promote young people's rights to lead healthy lives free from abuse
• explore and transform patterns of behaviour that put young people at risk of HIV infection

Our methodology is a highly experiential form of learning. Individuals and groups are profoundly engaged on physical, intellectual and emotional levels in an active exploration of how they experience the world, and the dynamics that underpin this experience. It is through this exploration that they generate the awareness and ability to implement practical and positive changes in their own lives and gain a voice in society as a whole.

Interactive Theatre

Interactive theatre is a key component of our work, allowing participants to:

• Learn the facts about sexual and reproductive health in innovative ways
• Investigate the reality of their experience of gender, relationships and sexuality
• Explore how behavioural patterns are manifested through voice, movement and space
• Develop communication skills to enable them to change their behaviour and negotiate their relationships positively and safely
• Practice these skills in action in challenging situations in the safe arena of the workshop

Interactive Theatre is a rehearsal for changing behaviour in life...

Interactive Theatre performances are

• devised by workshop participants entirely from their experiences related to gender, sexual health and HIV/AIDS and performed in community venues
• highly participatory, with audiences directly involved by being invited into the acting area to try to find practical strategies for changing the behaviour of the characters
• powerful forums for developing dialogue with interest groups such as parents about gender and sex education and for the advocacy of children's rights

Behaviour which may have seemed fixed becomes open to the possibility of being transformed. In this way, Interactive Theatre is a rehearsal for changing behaviour in life, and contributes to participatory health and sex education, awareness raising, stigma reduction, self-advocacy by young people and bottom-up policy making.

We use child centred approaches to:

• promote young people's rights to lead healthy lives free from abuse
• explore and transform patterns of behaviour that put young people at risk of HIV infection

EVERY WEEK, 500 YOUNG PEOPLE TAKE PART IN WORKSHOPS WHICH ENABLE THEM TO EXAMINE AND TRANSFORM RELATIONSHIPS WHICH PUT THEM AT RISK OF HIV INFECTION.