Playing With Water
More from our Mozambique. (Previous posts here.)
Later in the afternoon we traveled to a marketplace where a theater group, funded by the group PSI, performed a short play about sanitizing water. During the performance we learned that you just need to drop a few drops of the products (certeza) into a jug of water, shake it around, and wait 30 minutes to purify the water. The actors were, well, quite good – and a large crowd, including many children, gathered to watch. At the end, anyone who asked a question got a free bottle of the product. Each bottle is enough for 60 large jugs of water – and usually cost the equivalent of about 30 cents.
Similar theater groups perform plays about malaria and HIV.
-Virginia Simmons
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