Our Model
Through various forms of community-based psychosocial work, including theater workshops and drama teacher training, our organization aims to build the resiliency of survivors in post-conflict and post-disaster communities by picking up where relief aid leaves off. We train our partners to work as educators and leaders in their own communities, empowering them to administer programs that improve participants’ reading and writing skills, while using art to give their experiences a voice.
After our departure, Asmi provides continued organizational and teaching support to the partner organization to ensure the ongoing success of the training. Your continued support helps us encourage survivors to:
Process Their Pasts: Our curriculum helps participants transform from victims into empowered creators. This gives survivors the opportunity to process trauma and fear in safe group environments.
Reclaim Their Identities: With support from their teachers and peers, survivors are empowered to find their voice, reconnect with their productive potential, and reclaim their sense of self. This is the first step in getting young adults back in the work force.
Transform Their Communities: After completing our programs, many graduates go on to become teachers, determined leaders, and tangible sources of inspiration for others in their communities.
Literacy Program
Our model draws from Paulo Freire‘s literacy approach to create a participant-driven curriculum that is readily accessible to adult learners of all levels.
Creative Self-Expression Program
We use theater to help survivors process trauma and reconnect with their creative potential. The theater curriculum is based on the techniques of Augusto Boal, Viola Spolin, Daniel Sklar and Michael Rohd, as well as Playback Theater and the curricular model of Opening Act.