CHIPAWO Girl Power group is set to dazzle Gabrone Botswana when they travel to perform at the Children Association of Performing Arts Botswana (CHIPABO) Arts Festival running from August 28 to 31, 2015.

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The traveling groups consist of 15 girls who have been selected from various CHIPAWO centres as a way of uplifting the participation of the girl child in the arts. 

“The girls will present a play entitled ‘Who is a Child?’” said CHIPAWO manager, Chipo Basopo. “We would also like to invite people to attend the farewell concert of the girls free of charge on August 22, 2015 at the Scout Hall (CHIPAWO Centre) in Mt Pleasant.”

The story is based on a group of girls who were billed to provide entertainment for delegates at a Summit Conference and took advantage of the leaders present to present a thought provoking theatre production. The production brings out real life experiences that most girl children face in their day-to-day lives. 

“These challenges provoked the girls to ask, WHO IS A CHILD. This came as a results of the nature of abuses they face and the kind of treatment they get from their various societies which do not regard them as children through depriving them their basic rights such as education and forced/early marriages.   

“The girls will perform on August 29 at Little Theatre in Botswana. Apart from the festival presentation, the girls will also have the opportunity to have an exchange workshop with girls from CHIPABO. Other countries which will take part at the festival include Namibia, Swaziland, South Africa and Zambia,” revealed Basopo in a statement.

Girl Power is a programme established in 2003 that enables girls affiliated to CHIPAWO to meet and discuss various issues affecting them. CHIPAWO has participated in numerous empowering programmes, including participatory theatre communication on gender and HIV/AIDS with young women in partnership with UNICEF, the National Aids Council and the European Union.