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This booklet contains three case studies on creating enabling environments for young peoples sexual and reproductive health programmes: Art Is In Our Blood: Educational Street Theater in Sri Lanka describes the work of the Centre for Development Alternatives (CDA) on the Melfort Tea Estates to build community understanding and address community concerns through the use of street theatre.
The practice was selected because:
- The medium of street theatre was effective in evoking sympathetic emotional responses to the plight of young people in the community, which was pivotal in establishing an environment in which sexual and reproductive health activities for young people could be undertaken.
- Once the drama group is trained and established, the practice is very low-cost, and therefore can be sustained relatively easily.
- CDA had used street theatre in a previous project, so its use in RHIYA already represents a replication of the practice. Further replication is clearly possible.
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