Buddies for Luv Project

The Buddies for Luv Project's edutainment approach involves a team of field officers who perform a scripted play and facilitate post-performance activities, including discussions on HIV and AIDS and related development issues such as child abuse and gender. The discussions are designed to be participatory, with students making use of illustrations such as drawings to express their real-life situations and experiences with HIV and AIDS and related development issues.

The programme also distributes information, education, and communication (IEC) materials. Patsime has produced its own IEC material for youth and schools and also collects and distributes other material from other organisations.

In order to address issues of sustainability and empowerment raised by various stakeholders including the schools and the Ministry of Education, Sports, and Culture, Patsime Edutainment Trust introduced Buddies Clubs in schools. The schools work in collaboration with Patsime to run the clubs, which initiate their own activities at the schools with one teacher or patron playing a coordinating role. These activities include, but are not necessarily limited to, theatre, sports, music, and dance. Patsime provides some financial resources for these clubs to support some of the activities.

Gender, HIV/AIDS

Patsime Edutainment Trust is a Zimbabwean non-profit organisation established in 2002 and based in Harare, Zimbabwe. Patsime's core activities include: the production of edutainment theatre; participatory theatre for development; capacity development for community-based theatre groups; information collection, production, and dissemination; and promotion of communication and dialogue on issues related to HIV and AIDS, gender, and migration.