Attending school is a significant challenge for children residing in urban slums in Dhaka. Street schools, night schools and informal schooling run by NGOs and volunteers have come to play a major role within poor urban communities. Our project seeks to explore the potential for a creative education intervention to build health literacy with children within these informal settlement schools in Bangladesh.
Year
2022 – 2023
AIM
This scoping study seeks to explore seeks engage key stakeholders in the co-design of an arts-health intervention. It seeks to evidence of the educational priorities and needs of the urban slum communities in Dhaka, and support mutual understanding of potential opportunities, challenges, and constraints.
OBJECTIVES
To understand the need for innovative approaches to talk about health and well-being with children and young people.
To identify and develop context-specific feasible and sustainable interdisciplinary approaches and tools that will have a long-term impact in changing the behaviour in these communities.