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| CCCD stand at the 2012 Ideas Festival. |
THE Creative Centre for
Communication and Development (CCCD) hogged the limelight at the ideas festival
that took place in October. The organisation was the only one with gender based
violence materials for sharing with the public. The materials which were mobilised from the Gender Based Violence Network included the purple
ribbons, posters and fliers.
The Ideas Festival brought
together more than sixty civil society organizations drawn from all over
Zimbabwe. The Festival was punctuated by activities such as the Youth and Women’s
conferences, theatre performances, debates, presentations and satire.
CCCD participated at the 2012
edition of the Bulawayo Agenda organized Ideas Festival to increase the
visibility of the organization and to sell its programmes and activities to
members of the wider Bulawayo Metropolitan province and other provinces and organizations
across the country.
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| Some of the visitors to CCCd's stand |
The organization’s core focus at
the 2012 festival was to highlight issues of Gender Based Violence. The reason
for focusing on this issue was to lay the foundations for the impending 16 Days
of Activism Against Gender Based Violence campaigns scheduled to kick off from
November 25 to December 10.
The CCCD table at the festival
was strategically located at the entrance to the tent where the exhibitions
were taking place. This ensured maximum attendance from visitors to the
festival.
At the end of the festival, 120
people had visited our stand and more than 500 purple ribbons and other
materials had been distributed to raise awareness on the need to end violence
against women and children.
