HIV/Aids prevention
Two month ago i was working for this NGO called the Baobab family in Mombasa, Kenya to capture their projects, which is beside an orphanage mainly about HIV/Aids, two subjects which are standing in a very close conherence (as you could see here). On the one hand they support HIV+ women to give them the power again by giving them the feeling of not being alone with it and also with giving them the chance to work and care for their families that way by doing a little bit of money. But another big part of their work is doing prevention and reconnaissance work to fight the stigmatisation of HIV/Aids in the community and create a new understanding of the disease. They start with it at a very young age now, in the schools, doing little clubs where they write poems and do little theater about the theme. For me, as said before, it seems like that education is the only sustainable way to get out of this when you look at it on a larger time scale.
I was happy to join some of these clubs in the small school at the end the Bangladesh slum. So what you can see below is just a pretty rough cut of one of the plays the kids wrote and performed in the clubs, to fight against HIV/Aids and shout out loud that is something everyone is effected by in one way or another, so nothing what should be stigmatized.
[Vimeo 4586316 w=500&h=282]
