Saturday, September 20, 2008

me in repacted


Am Lawrence Mwai a volunteer in a community based organization called Repacted Kenya that deals with issues related to H.I.V& A.I.D.S MALARIA& TB .Am trained in puppetry .the puppets are used in magnet theater to mobiles the community and to educate them on the issues mentioned above. Since we advocate for positive behavior change it is not easy because of high level of illiteracy and drag abuse, there is change to the few that listen to as some of them were reentry trained as peer educators . repacted has started a program that is dealing with the youths, the youths come at the theater to discuss various different topics that we not clear to them as the leader of the discussion there are lots of issues that came up and we also get solution to the challenges that we get in the community during the magnet theater.