The manual is designed for media practitioners and activists who wish to use the power of entertainment and mass media to promote health, human rights, and social justice. Drawing on successful stories and case studies from Africa and elsewhere, this manual is designed to inspire, give fresh ideas, and share experiences of interesting edutainment programmes.
Soul City’s regional partner organisation in Mozambique, N’weti in partnership with MASC Mozambique, will be hosting an international conference on SRHR from 2nd to 3rd April 2014 in Maputo.
Alcohol abuse breeds apathy and joblessness, and fuels abuse in an ever more vicious cycle.
When Soul City's PhuzaWize campaigners did a community mapping exercise there in 2013, they found 2 305 households, one community library, a cultural village, a soccer stadium, an arts school, two clinics, 10 schools, five creches and 14 churches. And 28 liquor outlets; 24 were illegal.
Some interesting statistics on alcohol and alcohol use in South Africa.
At a meeting on 3 December 2013, the Global Fund Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) elected the Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication as the 6th Principal Recipient (PR) of a Global Fund grant in the allocation of 307 293 214 billion USD approved last September (Soul City received R60 million of the grant).
College students are renowned for partying at the weekends, and this usually involves having a drink or two. But new research has found that this level of alcohol consumption may cause damage to DNA. This is according to a study published in the journal Alcohol.
The Soul City Institute extends its condolences to the Mandela family. Like everyone across the world, we received the news of Tata’s passing with great sadness and disbelief. Although he had been sick for a while, I do not think that we would ever be ready to say goodbye to him.
Edutainment: Using Stories and Media for Social Action and Behaviour Change
