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To ensure that children know and appreciate African culture |
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To ensure that through the arts children learn, develop, grow up as balanced, harmonious, whole human beings who in turn help to make a balanced, harmonious, whole society |
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To ensure that children enrich and improve the performing arts and in many cases find fulfilling employment in the arts and related fields |
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To involve children in a participatory, creative, learning process which is dynamic, gender sensitive and democratic and in which the child is at the centre and every child is important-boy/girl; rich/poor; able/disabled; disability is not inability |
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To promote the enjoyment, knowledge and skills of African culture among children |
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To reinforce and enrich the cultural dimensions of the educational system through performing arts training |
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Children are given the opportunity to learn and develop |
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To expose children to dance, music, and theatre |
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To integrate children of different abilities and from different social and cultural backgrounds |
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To develop personal, and social skills such as confidence, communication and co-operation skills among children at an early age through the performing arts |
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The ability to speak publicly is also encouraged |
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Learning is creative and democratic. Every child counts |
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To ensure that children create, teach each other and contribute |
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To develop a confident child with a strong and individual personality who is sure of her/his identity and can communicate, work, and tolerate others |
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The right to arts education, and cultural activities |
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To develop appreciation of music |
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Opening up to participants to contribute their ideas and comments |
