Community Theatre Roadshow on HIV/AIDS Awareness
by Myanmarese refugees, for Myanmarese Refuge Communities
2007
In the first quarter of 2007, I was commissioned by UNHCR to design and implement an appropriate awareness program on HIV/AIDS for Burmese refugees. With the direction and training of Chris Ng, a seasoned HIV/AIDS facilitator and theatre activist, 20 Burmese Youth Leaders were trained as Peer to Peer facilitators, using a ‘Participative Educational Theatre’ (PET) model, which was then animated in their own language to 20 different refugee ‘hot spots’ throughout the Malaysian Peninsular. These PET roadshows were complimented with Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) for HIV/AIDS. The programme proved to be very successful as the refugees could relate to the down to earth, participative and entertaining format of education. The encouraging outcome of almost 100% of the refugees consenting to VCT was a key benchmark in the breakthrough of the awareness programme.
Training session
Theatre outreach at a farming community in the highlands
Our team and some jungle squatters posing for a group shot
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