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Story Workshop Welcomes Social Mobilisation Manager To the Team

1 February 2007 -- Story Workshop welcomes Shorai Nyambalo, who has joined the Story Workshop team as a Drama/Social Mobilisation Manager for a UNICEF-funded project focused on Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV. The project is called Zinapangana Kusanapse and evokes a popular Chichewa proverb that means, loosely,"Guinea fowls should come together to plan before the fire comes."

This behavior-change communications initiative will be carried out in partnership with the Government of Malawi's Ministry of Health and will focus on communities around healthcare sites that offer PMTCT services such as testing, counseling, safe motherhood and delivery services, anti-retroviral therapies and infant feeding education.

Shorai brings 6 years of experience working in theatre for development for a number of drama troupes and Malawian NGOs, including Concern Universal, Banja La Mtsogolo, PSI, The Centre for Social Research, GTZ, and Creative Centre for Community Mobilisation. She has also managed her own consulting business, performed for Story Workshop radio plays since 2004, and is currently pursuing her M.A in Development Communications at the Univeristy of Malawi Chancellor College.

Shorai is excited to join Story Workshop and says, " Working with Story Workshop is a dream come true for me. I personally love communication, and communicating to the communities especially rural masses using drama is what made me what I am. Joining SWET as the Drama/Social Mobilisation Manager is a hands on experience for me. Theatre for Development (TFD) allows the rural masses to have a say in developmental issues taking place in their communities. It creates ownership and sustainability of developmental projects. And that is what we, at Story Workshop do. I am happy to be here!"