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Disability Awareness Drama Group

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Initiated by the South African NGO Zanempilo Trust, this programme aims to educate and inform communities about disabled people through the medium of drama. A larger goal is to increase the respect shown toward people with disabilities, in part by increasing the sense of self-respect and achievement on the part of members of the drama group.
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The drama group consists of 14 members, 12 of whom are people with disabilities and two of whom are community rehabilitation workers (CRWs), each of whom has a disabled child. The group created a play with disability as its focus, which was performed at a number of schools. This play was intended to educate the public on the life of a disabled person.

Development Issues

Disability.

Key Points

Funded by the European Union and the Provincial Administration of the Western Cape (PAWC), Zanempilo is a South African NGO that delivers holistic primary health care services to disadvantaged peri-urban and rural communities in the Western Cape.

Sources

Zanempilo site.