What We Do

Run a range of education projects in conjunction with local partners, for acutely disadvantaged children, young people and women. Including Creative Education Programmes', using all forms of visual and performance art.
Currently Work In Ethiopia and England
Deliver 'Training Programmes' to teachers, social/care workers and parents. Informal workshops based around discussion and exploration of key aspects of childcare, in which understanding, tolerance and cooperation are emphasized and independent creative thinking encouraged
Utilise creative mediums, particularly Community Theatre to raise awareness of education and social issues, such as human rights, HIV Aids, poverty, child abuse.

Target Group

Our prime beneficiaries are children, young people and women, in developing countries (particularlyfi Ethiopia, our main area of operation), who are living acutely disadvantaged lives, whether through poverty, social circumstances or prejudice.

Aims and objectives

Support change through education
Bring about self-awareness
Stimulate creative, independent thinking
Engender self belief, self confidence and hope
Enable beneficiaries to generate income
Encourage a sense of social responsibility

Working method for creative educational programmes

Agree working theme/s for creative activities to form the framework of the programme i.e 'identity'
Design workshops using visual and performing arts
Feed creative workshops into vocational training programmes
Initiate group discussions, based on topics relevant to the beneficiaries and their lives
Establish a structured, disciplined means of working, based on mutual respect
Encourage beneficiaries to participate in regular group meetings
Train beneficiaries to deliver the programme to others in similar circumstances in return for a salary
Evaluate programme through feedback from related areas of beneficiaries lives, e.g school, home, work, social

Training programmes

To establish (through discussion) the broader, underlying principles of educational work and establish how to bring these about
To understand the importance of creative/independent thinking and identify the factors, which stimulate it and those that inhibit
To remove fear from the classroom/home/shelter etc - through understanding the mechanism of fear

See Teacher Training Outline for further details.