Project Vehicles: Africa Youth Ministries

Project Vehicles

Art For Social Change Program (AFSCP)

For generations in Africa, music, dance & drama has been used as a means of communication, celebration e.g. in marriages, installation of traditional leaders, celebrating seasons of harvest and in houses and places of worship. Today, the same medium of communication has been adapted by modern man for social development issues such as Environmental Education, HIV Prevention, Promoting Reconciliation and bridging cultural differences among communities, foster trauma recovery and healing and is being used to shape the moral fibre of our modern communities. Besides, many young people have taken on music as their professional career to generate a leaving and to create employment. In the past 4 years Africa Youth Ministries has worked and partnered with grass root organizations to increase awareness on HIV and AIDS in rural communities as a medium of prevention, led environmental education campaigns, promote reconciliation and forgiveness in the 20 years war torn Northern Uganda between the perpetrators of the bloody war and the offended people of Northern Uganda and as well music, dance and drama is being used to help war traumatized children and children orphaned by AIDS to trauma recovery.