upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
Nana will establish a 4-week intensive HIV/AIDS Prevention Peer Education Training Program with youth in North Philadelphia, resulting in the creation of a musical theatre troupe. In January 2006, Nana conducted a similar program in Larteh, Ghana working with peer educators 18-66. They created a play, 13 songs, 2 rap songs, 8 poems and 7 theatrical skits as tools to educate their communities about HIV/AIDS. At the StarSpirit center in North Philly, where this project will take place, children as young as 5 and adults as old at 79 come together to perform and create. The StarSpirit players will be change agents to help the flow of information about HIV/AIDS rates in the Black community, which leads the entire nation in new HIV cases, and stem the tide of this epidemic.