1.0  Project Description

  During the program, we intend to use all local theatre groups especially the Vitimbi Theatre Group and Actors from Kenya National Theatre and various churches and schools.  

1.1  Informing theatre groups

  The first activity would be to inform the existing theatre groups of the need to join hand and have a louder "voice" to promote child's right education in Nairobi slums i.e Mathare, Kibera and pastoral communities i.e. Narok, Kajiado, Pokot etc. These groups would include cultural and theatre groups that entertain in various T.V. programme, church and social gathering in Kenya .

  The main advantage of using the existing theatre groups is that they come from this communities and understand well the problems that exist and also well known to the community.

1.2  Theatre Development workshop

  A two-day workshop will be held to develop themes for the theatre. The participants would include theatre representatives, opinion leaders, youth group leaders, church youth representatives and other well wishers.

  This workshop will discuss various problems affecting (directly or indirectly) the education of girls and also come up with methods of addressing them.

  The workshop will also influence these theatre groups into preparing plays, drama, for promotion of child right education.

The participants of the workshop will also help in co-ordination and planning of the theatre performance in the various sections of the villages in Kenya .

1.3  Dissemination of information

  The project hopes to use printed and folk media to pass information on the importance of child right education. During every performance the participants will carry some pamphlets, posters and tracts to educate and inform the community to support the education of child rights.

  OFF LACK is committed in sensitizing the child about their right and Advocate for the review of the current constitution to give maximum protection of the child right as the current constitution does not cater fully for all aspect pertaining to children and their right.

  To fully appreciate the present constitutional attitude towards children in Kenya , one must understand the actual implications of the wording and effect of chapters V and VI of the current Constitution of Kenya. Chapter V, as already indicated, governs the Fundamental Rights and Freedoms of Citizen, while chapter VI addresses the issue of Citizenship. These chapters bear immediate and direct relevance to protection of Children's Rights. A critical analysis of the two reveals four startling scenarios: