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SCENARIOS
FROM AFRICA is a community mobilisation, education and media project
about HIV/AIDS carried out with and for young people.
It
gives children and young adults an exciting opportunity to educate themselves
and others about HIV/AIDS by inviting them to participate with internationally
acclaimed directors in the production of a
collection of short films.
The
films are based on ideas thought up by young people in a series of contests.
So far, over 105,000 young people from 37 African countries have taken
part in these contests. Over a thousand local and international partner
organisations are involved in organising the contests and selecting
the winning ideas.
Thirty-three
short fiction films are currently available. Some of the films
are very touching, others extremely funny. They are distributed
on a non-commercial basis across Africa and well beyond, for broadcast
on national television stations and on international satellite networks.
SCENARIOS films have
been broadcast on locally-based television stations in almost every country
in sub-Saharan Africa (shaded on map right), including on 20 stations
in Nigeria alone. The films are also collected in a DVD set and on compilation
VHS cassettes for use by organisations and schools. They are available
in a wide and growing range of African and European languages and are
reaching tens of millions of people.
SCENARIOS
FROM AFRICA is co-ordinated by GLOBAL DIALOGUES, a non-profit organisation
(UK charity no. 1071484) dedicated to promoting excellence in communication
about HIV/AIDS.
SCENARIOS FROM AFRICA
started life in 1997 as SCENARIOS FROM THE
SAHEL. The project drew inspiration from "3,000 Scenarios
against a virus", a project carried out in France between 1992 and
1994 by CRIPS and its partners.
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