Stories: Edutainment
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Reel to Real: Zambian TV Show Inspires Sex Education Scheme for Deaf People
Amos Simbeye grew up in a world of silence. Until he began attending a school for deaf children in Lusaka, Zambia, he had limited ways of communicating and few opportunities to learn about sex. In a country where 14.3% of the adult population is HIV positive (pdf), Amos and other deaf young people are for the...
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Love Games Try to Help Raise Awareness of HIV in Zambia
At the Munali Secondary School in Lusaka, an unusual youth club is under way. All eyes are on Humphrey Chileshe, a facilitator who uses sign language to lead an open and frank discussion on topics that are usually taboo here in Zambia, such as promiscuity, abuse, HIV and contraception. For the young people in the group, most of whom...
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Soap Operas for Safe Sex
Pastor Kangwa Chileshe leads a dual life. In addition to his mission work, Chileshe plays one of the lead characters in Zambian TV drama Love Games, in which he plays a divorcé pursuing a married woman embroiled in an abusive relationship. If this plot line sounds a bit risqué to you, it's all the more...