Drama as a counselling tool: Theatre of the Oppressed

Volens is also promoting existing tools that, through creative arts, can allow for children to open up and raise certain issues. One of these is done through a close friend of ours, Chiyedza (Shona name which means, as she poetically puts it:'the light that melts away the shadows', or in other words, the dawn), who is currently living with us as well. She used theatre with the kids from some of our partner organisations, of which hereby some pictures: