It has been some very exiting days at the Bongo camp site. We have started filming a small educational campaign addressing issues about HIV/AIDS, with the motto Usisahau kutumia kondomu (don’t forget condoms).
The Bongo Dox team have written three short films (infomercials) designed for Tanzanian television. One about the proper use of condoms, one about local myths and one about the ways you can contract HIV/AIDS. Producing the campaign is an exercise that can help the Bongo Dox team, when they are going to undertake a longer video project about HIV/AIDS, in the year 2012.
It has been a pleasure to see how much the team have developed and the enthusiasm with which they have taken on the task. Making an instructional video about the proper use of condoms can be somewhat of a delicate matter, but the team have received a lot of education regarding this issue, and they are most certainly not shy. The manuscript quickly came to include a very blunt instruction on how to proper use a condom, using a wooden penis replica as an instrument for demonstration. For theatrical effect the video was shot in a tent with one of the crewmembers as a leading actor. It might be a little over the top for Tanzanian television, but it has really shown the creativity and the capability of the team.
The workshops will soon come to an end, and it will be sad to leave. It has truly been a privilege to be received so open-hearted at the campsite, and work with a group of young people, that are so willing to learn and develop their skills.
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