Traditional Media in Learning for Change - Tanzania

The project has two main fronts: in the first, communities produced plays on AIDS, women's rights and girl education to contingent communities. This was followed by performances in those communities, and discussions with the audience. In the second front, researchers went to the communities, discussed prevailing problems, and asked them to create performances responding to those problems, including possible solutions.

HIV/AIDS, Children, youth, rights, gender, girls education

The results indicate that this type of media has a strong effect on the communities. For example, in communities where the AIDS play was performed, condom demand increased. They indicated they had been made to see the AIDS danger but would have liked further reinforcement ( ie bring the play again, and do one on problems of orphans...) With regards to women's rights and girl education more women are taking firmer stands about their lives, and the primary school girls are now doing better in examinations. In other communities, a school that had no students increased enrollment, people planted coffee trees so to get an income, school desks have been bought, latrines have been built and hygiene has increased.