Orphans and Vulnerable Children - CRIN

For this activity you will need:

 Flipchart and markers

 Copies of Handout 2

To facilitate this activity:

1 Present the steps of the behaviour change process, as explained in your facilitator’s notes.

Ask the participants to describe how each step might happen for a particular example:

such as a young person’s decision to stop smoking; or a young person deciding not to try

smoking when their friends are experimenting with smoking.

2 Then divide the participants into groups and assign a behaviour to each group. Ask them

to create and act out a role-play that shows a person starting out with a harmful or risky

behaviour; and then going through the process of change. Other group members can play

the roles of sensitisers, offering information, encouraging self-reflection, and so forth.

Possible behaviours could be:

 a sex worker who decides to find a different job

 a heavy drinker who wants to stop drinking

 a youth who skips school and needs help.

3 Have each group act out their skit for the plenary and

allow time for questions and comments.

4 Hand out copies of Handout 2 for reference.

1 hour

Guide to Mobilising and Strengthening Community-Led Care for Orphans and Vulnerable Children Unit 2, Module 4 27s3