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Many Americans appalled by the high number of AIDS victims in Africa
blame the victims
for carelessness and for not caring. This is certainly not the case in
Mali where about 2 percent of the population is HIV positive.
Please help
us fund the Projectguggenheim Bozo Marionette theater that will travel along the
Bani and Niger river, on a pirogue in order to reach small, remote
villages where people are especially vulnerable to the disease.
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MALI's highways are lined with signs warning people against AIDS, and
throughout the country youth organizations try to teach people how to
protect themselves. Curiously, one powerful medium for diffusing
information has not been used. When we suggested the use of masks
among the Dogon, the Bobo, and the use of marionette theater among the
Bozo, we received an enthusiastic response from the young peoples
associations. We also received a strong response from a Bambara school
in Kati, near Bamako where the children went to work with crayons and
pencils to create powerful AIDS warning images.
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