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Members of Adolescent Club performing the play in All Saints Higher Secondary School in Peren town on October 19.[/caption]
EMN
Dimapur, October 20
The district administration of Peren district and health organizations in the district on October 19 took the message of adolescents’ health in the form of a theater performance. The play was staged with the theme “Golden Age- Stay Healthy- Be aware” focusing on Adolescent Reproductive Sexual Health (ARSH). The play was performed in All Saints Higher School in Peren town.
The District Health Society of the Chief Medical Officer’s establishment of Peren district and a group called the Adolescent Club whose members are from the Peren Town Baptist Church Sunday School, and the District IEC Team National Health Mission conducted the play.The Adolescent period covers the age of 10-19 years. Young People play an important role in our state’s health and future. Hence programs about the health of children and the young people affect not only their lives, but also the health of the community as a whole.
With the Millennium Development Goals being made a priority in 2000, it has become critical to continue to support integrated, comprehensive health programs that holistically address the adolescents’ health including the reproductive and sexual health.
“Our State has kept this in mind and planned the Adolescent Health Programme as an overarching Umbrella programme which covers all the health interventions for children and youth of our State,” the organizers said in a press release that was issued on Monday.
Adolescent make up 22% of our country’s population and are a heterogeneous group of people. They vary in age, marital status, economic status, cultural background, religious beliefs etc. This calls for health interventions that are flexible and responsive to their needs. The ARSH program has evolved keeping these needs in mind. It plans to increase the health seeking behavior in the adolescent age group and provide them with the right knowledge about various aspects of their growing life.
Through Adolescent Friendly Health Clinics (AFHCs), counseling and curative services are provided on fixed days and fixed time with due referral linkages. Commodities such as Iron & Folic Acid tablets and non-clinical contraceptives are also made available in the clinics for the adolescents.
Counseling services for adolescent on important health areas : on nutrition, menstrual disorders, personal hygiene, menstrual hygiene, use of sanitary napkins, use of contraceptives, sexual concerns, depression, sexual abuse, gender violence, substance misuse and promoting healthy behavior to prevent non-communicable diseases.
“The objective was to provide accurate information and educate in the simplest form, thus the channel ‘Street Play’ has been initiated. It aims in educating and creating awareness on this issue, what and who is Adolescent: The Importance of being Abstinence, physical growth and development, and the sexual and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, its causes and risk factors and its consequences,” the organizers said.
The play was conducted during the assembly hour early in the morning. Also, a short talk about health was also given by the IEC team. Information was given about the facilities available. The facilities are adolescent health clinics in the District Hospital of Peren and Community Health Centre of Jalukie.
IEC materials such as leaflets, pamphlets and booklets in English stating facts about Iodine deficiency disorders, and facts about the importance of Zinc, and facts about HIV & AIDS were distributed during the event.
Street Plays – A Means of Spreading Awareness
Theatre and India share a long relation dating back to about 5000 years. The earliest form of theatre being the Sanskrit theatre. Bharata’s ‘Natya Shastra’ was the one of the earliest play enacted in India. With subsequent conquests by Moghuls , the British and the likes, theatre also transformed. It was influenced as deeply as our food, art and language.
From being a combined form of narrating a story with the help of acting, dancing and reciting; it has branched out from expansive and costly stage theatres to bare minimum street play. Street theatre involves presentation in outdoor public spaces without a specific and paying audience but a fairly large group. These spaces can be anywhere, including malls, car parks, street corners et al.
These plays may address serious issues like HIV/AIDS, family planning, corruption, saving the girl child etc. The actors who perform street theatre may be people lacking means for a big hall and proper audience, o organized theatre companies or groups that want to send across a social message or to advertise their mainstream work.
We all love to be entertained. What could be more intelligent than mixing entertainment with an attempt to change the society?
Members of Adolescent Club performing the play in All Saints Higher Secondary School in Peren town on October 19.[/caption]
EMN
Dimapur, October 20
The district administration of Peren district and health organizations in the district on October 19 took the message of adolescents’ health in the form of a theater performance. The play was staged with the theme “Golden Age- Stay Healthy- Be aware” focusing on Adolescent Reproductive Sexual Health (ARSH). The play was performed in All Saints Higher School in Peren town.
The District Health Society of the Chief Medical Officer’s establishment of Peren district and a group called the Adolescent Club whose members are from the Peren Town Baptist Church Sunday School, and the District IEC Team National Health Mission conducted the play.The Adolescent period covers the age of 10-19 years. Young People play an important role in our state’s health and future. Hence programs about the health of children and the young people affect not only their lives, but also the health of the community as a whole.
With the Millennium Development Goals being made a priority in 2000, it has become critical to continue to support integrated, comprehensive health programs that holistically address the adolescents’ health including the reproductive and sexual health.
“Our State has kept this in mind and planned the Adolescent Health Programme as an overarching Umbrella programme which covers all the health interventions for children and youth of our State,” the organizers said in a press release that was issued on Monday.
Adolescent make up 22% of our country’s population and are a heterogeneous group of people. They vary in age, marital status, economic status, cultural background, religious beliefs etc. This calls for health interventions that are flexible and responsive to their needs. The ARSH program has evolved keeping these needs in mind. It plans to increase the health seeking behavior in the adolescent age group and provide them with the right knowledge about various aspects of their growing life.
Through Adolescent Friendly Health Clinics (AFHCs), counseling and curative services are provided on fixed days and fixed time with due referral linkages. Commodities such as Iron & Folic Acid tablets and non-clinical contraceptives are also made available in the clinics for the adolescents.
Counseling services for adolescent on important health areas : on nutrition, menstrual disorders, personal hygiene, menstrual hygiene, use of sanitary napkins, use of contraceptives, sexual concerns, depression, sexual abuse, gender violence, substance misuse and promoting healthy behavior to prevent non-communicable diseases.
“The objective was to provide accurate information and educate in the simplest form, thus the channel ‘Street Play’ has been initiated. It aims in educating and creating awareness on this issue, what and who is Adolescent: The Importance of being Abstinence, physical growth and development, and the sexual and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, its causes and risk factors and its consequences,” the organizers said.
The play was conducted during the assembly hour early in the morning. Also, a short talk about health was also given by the IEC team. Information was given about the facilities available. The facilities are adolescent health clinics in the District Hospital of Peren and Community Health Centre of Jalukie.
IEC materials such as leaflets, pamphlets and booklets in English stating facts about Iodine deficiency disorders, and facts about the importance of Zinc, and facts about HIV & AIDS were distributed during the event.
Street Plays – A Means of Spreading Awareness
Theatre and India share a long relation dating back to about 5000 years. The earliest form of theatre being the Sanskrit theatre. Bharata’s ‘Natya Shastra’ was the one of the earliest play enacted in India. With subsequent conquests by Moghuls , the British and the likes, theatre also transformed. It was influenced as deeply as our food, art and language.
From being a combined form of narrating a story with the help of acting, dancing and reciting; it has branched out from expansive and costly stage theatres to bare minimum street play. Street theatre involves presentation in outdoor public spaces without a specific and paying audience but a fairly large group. These spaces can be anywhere, including malls, car parks, street corners et al.
These plays may address serious issues like HIV/AIDS, family planning, corruption, saving the girl child etc. The actors who perform street theatre may be people lacking means for a big hall and proper audience, o organized theatre companies or groups that want to send across a social message or to advertise their mainstream work.
We all love to be entertained. What could be more intelligent than mixing entertainment with an attempt to change the society?