Mitaa Salama

Helping the children and youth to fully identify and develop their talent, be innovative and creative. In English this project called “Safe Streets” (Stop Drugs, Stop Abuse, Save new generation) we run this project especially in different streets in Arusha by educating community through arts, music and dance. Discover and develop local talents from streets and create platform for them to show their ability and how arts and music can change the life of youth. Through this project we providing different education like civil education, substance abuse and violence against children and women, gender based violence and social education. Also to do murals (Wall art Campaign for social issues awareness in Arusha slums to brings social change) painting walls as a way to convey the message and educate the community. We use arts as an alternative, positive and potentially lucrative, focus for youth, as opposed to crime and drug abuse. To utilize arts as means to enhance community cohesion, to bring hope and to promote peace and solidarity in the community .To promote culture and diversity by bringing together artists from different areas and use arts to change the negative perception of the world towards the slum. Reduce idleness that consequently leads to issues such as crimes, earlier pregnancy at lower age, rapping, drug abuse and alcoholism .To use arts to educate the community and prevent crime and violence against the people .Our streets, our destiny.