Omar Thomaz and Luis Enrique, two brazilian anthropologists with a great deal of experience, showed interest in Positivo project and insisted on giving us their critical appreciation in a two-hour conversation after the workshop:
‘It is very hard to communicate on condoms and HIV-AIDS in Mozambique. The first error that activists often make is to present the disease as a tragedy, whereas people must know they can work and live many years with an appropriate treatment. I am glad Positivo work with life, not death. Your project successfully maintained positive thinking all the way.’
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Positivo team arrived at 8 am in Homoine’s ‘Escola Secundaria 25 de Setembro’. We set up the studio in a classroom and welcomed 24 participants to the workshop, girls and boys being present in equal numbers (see the list of participants attached). After a short presentation of pupils and project, HIV-AIDS participative education started. Our method simply consisted in analysing, with the pupils, the collected answers to the question ‘Why do we not use condoms?’.
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On Friday the 14th of September 2007, around 1.30 pm, Positivo team arrived in Homoine, met local authorities and set up the stage in the main square of the city. Homoine’s General Administrator warmly welcomed us :‘HIV-AIDS is a big problem in Homoine, the biggest obstacle being miscommunication between adults and children. I hope you will come and help us many times. Music can break taboos. Positivo should record a song in Shit’swa (local dialect) to make it understandable by everybody. If the message is right and the music makes people dance, anything can happen.’
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Before organising the workshop, we visited Maxixe’s ‘Escola Secundaria 29 de Setembro’ several times. On their last visit, Helio D and Roland Pickl were introduced to the pedagogical director, and presented the workshop to students in a classroom.
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