Ghetto Artists Organisation

 Ghetto Artists is an NGO that has been working in Francistown for over 15 years, primarily using the performing arts, linked with life-skills education, to address various community concerns.  Our main objective is to use popular theater as an educational tool for youth to inform them on prevalent societal issues. 


We use the arts to create meaningful social change in Tswana culture, some of the ways we do this include:

1. Peer Education
2. Facilitation
3. Theater Performance
4. Poetry
5. Music
6. Story Telling
7. Script Writing
8. Sound System
 

Project History

§  Children’s theatre  (2002) funded by World Bank

§  Sexual Transmitted Infections Campaigns (2006) funded by African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships  (ACHAP)

§  Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health Campaigns (2002-2004) funded by African Youth Alliance

§  Multiple Concurrent Partnerships (2008-2010) funded by Population Service International Botswana

§  Community Home Based Care Campaigns (2003) funded by NACA

§  Dzalobana Arts Festival (2002-2010) funded by World Bank, UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, DMSAC, NACA, Department of Youth Sports and Culture

§  Prevention of Mother to child Transmission Campaigns (2004) funded by Ministry of Health

§  Multiple Concurrent Partnerships (2010-2013) funded by National Coordinating Agency (NACA)

§  Road Safety Campaigns (2013-2014) funded by MVA

§  Alcohol Awareness’ Campaigns (2013) funded by BOCONGO

 

Partners and Networks

Ghetto Artists is associated with BAOTA (Botswana Association of Theatre Activities), SATI (Southern African Theatre Initiative), BOCONGO (Botswana Coalition of NGOs), BONASO (Botswana Network of AIDS Service Organisations) and AYA (African Youth Alliance).  The organization has also partnered with the Centre for the Deaf, Francistown Schools, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Youth Sports and Culture, Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime and Botswana Television.  Our work has been recognized with many awards from various offices including the Botswana National Youth Council, World Bank Innovation Day Award, the Department of Culture and Youth and many more.  The organisation has implemented programmes in partnership with major national and international funders and partners including African Comprehensive HIVAIDS Partnership, UNICEF and Population Service International Botswana.