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			KIDZSAFAR - Protecting, educating and celebrating children through the Arts - Children like young people are vulnerable to diverse dangers. The aim of this program is to work with the youth to take some responsibility of their young brothers and sisters in the community. The program also includes increasing awareness among children on their rights, developmental issues that affect them and giving them skills in the arts thus taking them off the streets where they are risk of all kind of dangers including child molestation and drug abuse. A creative journey ‘SAFARI’ that inclusively and playfully helps inspire children in their own way participate in developmental issues at the same time having loads of fun.









			Kidzsafari projects includes: AFTER SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAM Working with YADEN members Y-TAP supports these youth groups to mobilise and motivate children from ages 5 to 15 in their neighbourhoods to join an after school (afternoon & weekend) arts training project, where they follow courses in dance, music, acrobatics, drama, visual arts and other creative disciplines.This project not only helps strengthen intergenerational relations within the community but also motivates the youth to be responsible besides impacting children with new creative skills not taught in the normal schools curriculum.The goal is to have every YADEN youth group member to have a children program within their locality. KIDZSAFARI FESTIVAL Every first weekend of December Y-TAP holds an exclusively children festival, where all the children groups show case performances and art works created during the year long training. The festival also brings together organisations working with children to exchange experiences, ideas and expertise. At the festival Y-TAP sensitises organisations the strengths of engaging the arts while working with children by conducting a participatory workshop for teachers, children officers and organisations working with children.A celebratory public festival where the community can be proud of the talents, skills and energies of its ‘small people’