Review "Challenge You & Your Community" Part 3

Well, welcome back to my blog. At this moment I would like to continue my book’s review of “Challenge You and Your Community”. Previous post, I have share about the methods which used in this projects, now I would like to share how it can make social change in community.

This book explain that the purpose of this projects is for social change. “Who? How? For whom? What were the results? What happened afterwards?”. Depending on which project will be able to answer those question. Now, I’ll explain how it works in one example. Using Theatre

What problems were tackled this way?

• ·         Conflicts in families
• ·         Corruption
• ·         Social Apathy
• ·         Environment issue
• ·         Global Challenge: poverty, gender equality, education, etc.

Groups that were targeted:

• ·         General public
• ·         Young teenagers
• ·         Students and youth in general
• ·         Ethnic minority

Locations of performances:

• ·         In the fields
• ·         Schoolyard
• ·         Pubs, bars
• ·         Beach
• ·         During open air festival

Now, how about the result?

Raised awareness based on the project’s theme. Increased level of self confidence and public attention. Changed personal and group approach in certain project.

Depending on the specific of each community where project were implemented the short impact even long term impact will be achieved. It needs well-planned strategies. To give the best affects needs the best efforts.

That’s how a project from communities for communities work. Its kind of methods give different results, based on the targeted context. Next part will be posted soon. Thanks for your visit. Cheers !!