Create awareness on proper disposal of human waste through performing Art
Following the first meeting with the Makadara Health management team, the community health assistant helped us to identify sites with Milimani and Sinai paradise where open defecation was of great concern and where triggering had also been done before as a way of following up. U-Tena artists had already come up with several thematic skits focusing on main reasons for open defecation, what action should be taken and the best way to work.
Together as a community to ensure open free defecation community. The thematic skits were performed in 12 different community awareness forums (outreaches) within the selected sites. The process entails identification of an open place, use dances to mobilize the community then perform the skit. U-Tena uses magnet theatre technique to engage the community in coming up with a solution. This entails creating a dilemma in the middle of a skit then a facilitator freezes the skit to engage the community in the way forward and even randomly pick some of the community members to act out the recommendations. In the community outreaches, U-Tena involves both the landlords and the natural leaders hence making it easy to engage all the groups in a discussion.
Following the first meeting with the Makadara Health management team, the community health assistant helped us to identify sites with Milimani and Sinai paradise where open defecation was of great concern and where triggering had also been done before as a way of following up. U-Tena artists had already come up with several thematic skits focusing on main reasons for open defecation, what action should be taken and the best way to work.
Together as a community to ensure open free defecation community. The thematic skits were performed in 12 different community awareness forums (outreaches) within the selected sites. The process entails identification of an open place, use dances to mobilize the community then perform the skit. U-Tena uses magnet theatre technique to engage the community in coming up with a solution. This entails creating a dilemma in the middle of a skit then a facilitator freezes the skit to engage the community in the way forward and even randomly pick some of the community members to act out the recommendations. In the community outreaches, U-Tena involves both the landlords and the natural leaders hence making it easy to engage all the groups in a discussion.