New Gender Sensitive Programming at Tambaram read about it >
2010, in the works... More theatre training in rural areas for partners like UNICEF, Chennai and other NGO's.
The Nalamdana team is working on creating many more interactive flip charts, short films, games and radio programs to cover reproductive health, child rights and special materials for HIV positive people and their families. These will be ready for duplication within a year.
The Clinton Foundation has funded Nalamdana to create and execute special Drama training for targeted youth at their project site in Tirupathy and Chitoor, where ART patients access free treatment. As Nalamdana's senior trainers are also the creative producers of the programs at Tambaram, this team have identified and trained village actors from May- June 2010. The trained teams will perform at the ART centres to reach crucial messages to out patients, monitored by Nalamdana.
This is the first time Nalamdana has trained and expanded their work outside the state, in another Indian language. read more >
In our 15th year of Behavior Change Communication, Nalamdana Made Children's Day in India Special by creating a film addressing domestic violence, suicide prevention and child labour.
Nandavanathil.....
(In the perfect garden...)
a one hour Tamil video film
Story, Screenplay, Dialogues and Direction
R. Jeevanandham, Nalamdana
The film shows how a loving couple, full of dreams, find their world topsy turvy by the end of a gripping one hour story. The domestic violence and husband's drinking drive the young mother and wife to suicide.
The deliberate negative ending has already created positive change in some women. One woman in the test audience last week came up to Jeevanandham (after seeing the film) and cried, telling him that this was her real story too. She said she had been on the brink of suicide many times, but now after seeing what happened to the little boy, she was determined to live, fight it out and save her child. read more >
Click on this link "They're playing my song, doc" >
to read about the "Are You Well" Project in the Times of India, Crest Edition, January 30, 2010 News Article
