The final show went magnificently. Drama group’s smiling faces showed that the girls were happy with their performance too. Below you can read some thoughts of drama group members.
Jessica Tuma from a small town in Kenya said that she had learned from the workshop that HIV/Aids information can be taught in many ways. HIV/Aids is a very close subject to her because her uncle who used to support her with school fees was killed by the disease. Now Jessica fears that she can not start at secondary school next year because she is lacking school fees. There are six children in her family and they have not enough room nor money. She said that sometimes the family does not have enough money even to eat.
Jessica hopes for free education and that other countries would support Kenya more.
Elsabet Mengesha from Addis Abeba, Ethiopia said that HIV/Aids is a big problem in her country too. Happily she or her family are not affected directly. Elsabet thinks that the best part of the stay in Finland has been generally all of it, but especially the visit in a Finnish family and seeing a Christmas parade. She was very happy with being in drama group and she hopes to become an actress some day.
Head of the group Ulla Tarvainen, theatre pedagogy, was happy to realise once again that drama does work. "Language of art is universal. It really is possible to accomplish a total performance in a very short time." She hopes that drama group members could use the elements of drama they practised back home.
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