Kamanga Dance Ensemble is a registered community-based organization based in Kamanga Compound in the peri-urban of Lusaka city. The population is 20,000 people.
Like any other compounds, Kamanga is a highly density community comprising of middle and low-income class of people. Many of these people work in farms and as house servants. This is so because of illiteracy levels which is very high. The community has no social amenities like recreation centres, play parks, sports complex to mention but a few.
It is in this vein that KADE came up with the plan to construct the Community Cultural Centre which is at wall plate level that when completed will not only be used for cultural performances but also to serve as a skills training centre for the youths of Kamanga Compound and even the youths of other surrounding communities.
We use tools to help the community understand the issues that affect them in their daily lives such as dance drama, like the one in the video on HIV/AIDS pandemic, dance, songs, listening survey, story with a gap and social analysis.
Depending on the problem, we go in the community and do a listening survey where we do not have questionnaires but only listen to what the people talk about. After that, we prepare a sketch or dance drama. We then mobilize the residents by sounding the drums. After the people have gathered, we then perform the dance drama or sketch. We make sure the sketch has some symptoms of the problem affecting them (the residents).
REACTION AND INVOLVEMENT OF THE PEOPLE
Then start asking why do you think the people are doing what they are doing? Why are they doing that? The but why, method then applies. But why? Why? Why? All this is done in order to challenge the residents to move from observing to thinking and also to look deeply into an issue/situation so as to understand the problem and its root causes, consequences, connections and find a way for effective and proper response from the people.
Further questions are asked ‘Does this happen in real life situation? And if it happens what do you think should be done. The answers they normally have are of yes or everyday and others will even say all the time. Some even give examples of real situations that they have seen or noticed but cannot do anything about it.
So, when we get to this stage, we see people putting themselves in positions of doers, actors of the problem and also they show that any action that they are going to take will be sustainable because they will take full responsibility of the action.
This is what Kamanga Dance Ensemble is doing in the compound and surrounding communities. Our involvement in the developmental programs has really been felt and appreciated by the communities. Right now the communities are able to identify problems, plan, prioritise and solve their own problems.
Like any other compounds, Kamanga is a highly density community comprising of middle and low-income class of people. Many of these people work in farms and as house servants. This is so because of illiteracy levels which is very high. The community has no social amenities like recreation centres, play parks, sports complex to mention but a few.
It is in this vein that KADE came up with the plan to construct the Community Cultural Centre which is at wall plate level that when completed will not only be used for cultural performances but also to serve as a skills training centre for the youths of Kamanga Compound and even the youths of other surrounding communities.
We use tools to help the community understand the issues that affect them in their daily lives such as dance drama, like the one in the video on HIV/AIDS pandemic, dance, songs, listening survey, story with a gap and social analysis.
Depending on the problem, we go in the community and do a listening survey where we do not have questionnaires but only listen to what the people talk about. After that, we prepare a sketch or dance drama. We then mobilize the residents by sounding the drums. After the people have gathered, we then perform the dance drama or sketch. We make sure the sketch has some symptoms of the problem affecting them (the residents).
REACTION AND INVOLVEMENT OF THE PEOPLE
Then start asking why do you think the people are doing what they are doing? Why are they doing that? The but why, method then applies. But why? Why? Why? All this is done in order to challenge the residents to move from observing to thinking and also to look deeply into an issue/situation so as to understand the problem and its root causes, consequences, connections and find a way for effective and proper response from the people.
Further questions are asked ‘Does this happen in real life situation? And if it happens what do you think should be done. The answers they normally have are of yes or everyday and others will even say all the time. Some even give examples of real situations that they have seen or noticed but cannot do anything about it.
So, when we get to this stage, we see people putting themselves in positions of doers, actors of the problem and also they show that any action that they are going to take will be sustainable because they will take full responsibility of the action.
This is what Kamanga Dance Ensemble is doing in the compound and surrounding communities. Our involvement in the developmental programs has really been felt and appreciated by the communities. Right now the communities are able to identify problems, plan, prioritise and solve their own problems.
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