STOP THE PRESSES! Or turn-on the cameras??

We recently trained Our Love Support peer educators in the photo-voice technique (using photography as an entry-point, into discussion on particular issue, in our case HIV/AIDS & Sexual Reproductive Health). We have since equipped them with cameras and they are busy strategizing on photos that they are going to take in their communities which are related to Sexual and Reproductive Health,

Our peer educators, will use these photos, and the accompanying stories they write, when they hold group discussions on different topics in their communities. We have found that sometimes, it’s hard, to simply start talking about “sexual abuse” for example, in a group, but by using photographs, the people involved do not necessarily have to talk about their own experience directly. Our experience has shown that this helps build trust, and over time, people that may have gone through some these experiences, choose to speak, in private or publicly about the particular theme or issue.

Are there issues in your own community that you could begin to address using PhotoVoice? Perhaps you have already tried it? What was the result?

We will keep you updated! And we would also love to hear from you!


Happy Snapping!


The Love Support Team