Sponsored Arts for Education (SAFE) works in Kenya using the arts to communicate life-saving health education messages in crisis communities.
Current funding priorities include £35,380 for a new pilot project working with 6 maximum security prisons in Coast Province Kenya, to provide HIV information to 6,000 prisoners through Theatre and non-formal education techniques. In addition prisoners will benefit from learning peer education skills, counselling skills, and the ability to counsel and test their peers for HIV.
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SAFE seeks to challenge the stigma, silence and discrimination associated with HIV/AIDS and female circumcision and promote compassion, honesty and open discussion. It does so by engaging the local community using peer educators to work with traditional story-telling techniques and dramatisations.
SAFE is a mobile organisation, taking performance, education and vital HIV information to communities in neglected areas that do not have access to services or conventional means of information dissemination (i.e. public health television or poster campaigns).
Our assessment:
- They are a small, cost-effective NGO working with innovative techniques with an otherwise neglected community.
- In a short time they have tripled their annual budget and have gained recognition for their pioneering approach.
- Their work can be replicated across sub-Saharan Africa.
Quick facts
| Location: |
Kenya |
| Sector: |
Health, Education,
Women |
| Annual income: |
£164,478 (2007) |
| Annual expenditure: |
£161,814 (2007) |
| Number of paid staff: |
1 UK
42 in Kenya, 30 full time |
| Registration: |
UK Registered charity 1097369 |
| Date of most recent contact with Prospero: |
Information update, August 09 |