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.
The Create Trust Papers