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SIDART
& ART ACTION- Generating awareness about HIV/ AIDS using
tradional folk art forms
SIDART has, in cooperation with Art Action Singapora, established a
project which aims at creating awareness and providing information about
HIV and Aids by means of traditional folk arts.
During the last
fifteen years, the HIV/AIDS epidemic in has progressed from a negligible
number of HIV infections in year 1986 to 3.86 millions in year 2000.
Effective communication and providing information about prevention and
the cure is important to bring about any behavior change among the
people. It is proven that consistent messages from a variety of
legitimate sources, disseminated in an interactive manner, will in all
probability affect the behavior of people. Within this project, people
from the slums are trained in performing several folk art performances
which include messages about the prevention and cure of HIV and AIDS.
The people from the slums are given a better livelihood since they have
an income and thereby, the people within Jaipur will better listen to
them since they feel more connected to these people.
By means of a training
period of two months, the people were trained to perform the traditional
folk art such as puppet shows, Bhoppa shows, street plays / nukkar
natak, kacchi ghodi, singing, dancing, acting etc.
Two hundred shows of
various art forms were performed from December 2008 to July 2009 in
various locations in Jaipur in order to create awareness and provide
information to the community on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.
The feedback of the
audience as well as of the artists was very impressive. That is why we
decided to continue with the awareness programs using traditional form
of art also in the future. Next one which has already started focuses on
malnutrition.
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