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Project Summary
We will engage with communities about type 2 diabetes through research, drama, and a funfair in rural plains Nepal.
We will work with the Janakpur Women's Development Centre artists and independent artists to explore how type 2 diabetes is experienced and understood. Artists will interact with those who have diabetes, those at risk of diabetes, and health workers from the public and private sectors.
Artists will then produce traditional Maithil paintings, props, interactive displays, and games for a large funfair. Artists will also prepare a drama about type 2 diabetes which will be performed in surrounding villages.
We aim to increase knowledge, understanding, and motivation to prevent and control diabetes using participatory research and art.
A face of concentration as a boy aims to throw a vegetable bean bag into the mouth of a painted unhealthy figure
A man has his Body Mass Index calculated at the mela by local nurses who we trained on diabetes and nutrition counselling
Dumbbells were made by the JWDC artists with healthy vegetables painted on them
