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A group of youths interested in social development have been presenting street plays in different communities on various important issues. All the group members are students of Bharati Vidyapith MSW College. One of them (Anil Gaikwad) has been doing field work with A-K for the last year.
Asha-Kiran, the Street Play Group and two Spanish volunteers (Nerea Durán Terron and María Lucero Rodríguez) planned the activity in the community. The play was based on ‘Swachha Bharat Abhiyan’ (Clean India Campaign), for which the volunteers prepared beautiful posters.
The play starts with a song that describes Asha-Kiran’s vision and work, followed by a description of the situation of the slums. One person plays the role of a monkey (all traditional street plays use the same concept in India) and another person is his boss. The boss asks the monkey to do a trick, but the monkey refuses saying that he won’t work in an unclean place that smells bad and has so many flies and mosquitoes.
The boss says that this is the typical condition of all the slums, especially in Pune. The monkey then explains the importance of cleanliness in our surroundings and homes. In the second part, he talks about the advantages of a clean and neat neighborhood. We hope that, little by little, the slum dwellers will have a better understanding of the value of hygiene and actively improve their living conditions.
