Educational Theater in Kobama Division

When we visited the Kobama Participatory Educational Theater (K-PET) group on the 13th March 2011, we were both excited of their major approach model towards mobilization and education to the public of whom most of them have grown tired of the long speeches experienced in trainings, workshops and other gatherings.
The group is registered as a CBO and has a variant of activities that one can always learn from at any time of visit; table banking, behaviour change communication, poultry, horticulture, tree nursery, tents and plastic chairs for hire, public address system hire and giant puppet for mobilization.
What attracted us most was the idea of how the giant puppet and the their educative skits attracted large masses and kept them concentrating all through.

Arina Cluster Group holds a Farmers Field day in Central Kanyamwa-Ndhiwa

Tuesday, 22 November 2011 was a day that shall remain to be remembered by many in Central Kanyamwa in Ndhiwa District. Arina Cluster Group, a self help group, in conjunction with the Ministry of Agriculture and CEFA through C-MAD that had previously established a demonstration farm of about an acre, called in for community members around this area to attend and learn better skills on the new production techniques to maximize on their production and furthermore adapt to the unpredictable climatic conditions.
The exhibition plots at the site entailed groundnuts production, sunflower, bee keeping, local poultry, kales and so many farm activities that were actually in there best conditions. Both the group members and experts from various departments were there to answer questions from the eager community members who got enticed with the production techniques that they had acquired.
So far, field days have proved to be of great impact to our target groups and we would like to continue encouraging to develop the culture of furthering  'farmer-to-farmer' exchange visits with an aim of information sharing and exchange.