Report to the Church of Scotland about HIV/AIDs activities in India!

2. Theological Students and HIV/AIDsTheological Students and HIV/AIDs
• Ministerial Challenge and Attitude Problem
within the churches
• Moving from God-talk to Human-talk,
particularly talk of the infected
• Learning through Praxis – Going out to the
people
• Training others and thus performing and
thus continuing in their mission and
ministry.

3. Community CommunicationCommunity Communication
From Diffusion and Dependency toFrom Diffusion and Dependency to
Community orientationCommunity orientation
Participation, Entertainment andParticipation, Entertainment and
LearningLearning
Creating or being part ofCreating or being part of
CommunityCommunity’’s spaces space
Being part of CommunityBeing part of Community’’s publics public
space as Christian Witnessingspace as Christian Witnessing

4. From Diffusion and Dependency to CommunityFrom Diffusion and Dependency to Community
orientationorientation
Participation, Entertainment and LearningParticipation, Entertainment and Learning
Creating or being part of Community’s spaceCreating or being part of Community’s space
Being part of Community’s public space as ChristianBeing part of Community’s public space as Christian
WitnessingWitnessing

5. Therukoothu and PavaikoothuTherukoothu and Pavaikoothu
Spectator to Spect-actor (Boal)Spectator to Spect-actor (Boal)
Character to Care-actor (SriCharacter to Care-actor (Sri
Narayana Guru)Narayana Guru)
Communicator to Communi-actorCommunicator to Communi-actor
(Bhaktin)(Bhaktin)
Taking Theologians to streets andTaking Theologians to streets and
pavement dwellerspavement dwellers

6. Mass
Media
Market Pressure/Profit
motive/increasing
space
Negative
/Stereotype
reporting
as Practice
Popularizing
strange things -
fundamentalism
Constructing
Realities:
Turning
reality into a
myth…Media refers to TV/Radio/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet…
Information
Communicatio
n
Entertainment
Rich,
powerful,
professionals
get more
space

7. Community
media
characteristics
Dialogic, democratic,
communitarian, local,
participation
Voice of
voiceless,
minorities
and others
Cheap, easy
access, non-
profit, simple,
non-
professional
Towards
Social
change,
human
dignity
and
development
Intercultural in nature,
culturally rooted, folk
culture, updated
interactive technology
Alternative
perspectives and
practices
Space for
disabled,
HIV/AIDs
infected,
refugees,
Eunuchs, and
less privileged
people
Promote a
culture of
peace and
harmony

8. HIV/AIDS PROBLEM in INDIA
 Awareness about the infection
 Fear-mongering about AIDs
 Attitude towards infected
 Ignorance about the Treatment
 Confusion about the local medicines
 Care and Treatment – a big investment
 Working together – too many NGOs and No
network

9. Estimated numbers of adults and children living with
HIV/AIDS, end 2004 in India
Group
Living with
HIV/AIDS
Adults 5,000,000
Women 1,900,000
Children 120,000
Total 5,100,000
Adult HIV prevalence
estimate
0.9%
http://www.avert.org/indiaaids.htm

10. Theological Students in the Bangalore pavement
performing Street Theatre

12. Muppets and Puppets on the Show – Recently included