The summary below was provided by the Peace Corps Volunteer and the community administering this project.

Vision: To create awareness and foster creativity in students living in a community in Ethiopia, about a wide array of social issues such as: HIV/AIDS, health, nutrition, exercise, the environment, people living with disabilities, cheating in school, and gender equality, through the production and distribution of multimedia and supporting resources to schools.

Kids for Kids is an innovative project that couples creativity through music video production with collaboration between key community organizations. This project is essentially the production of educational music videos by children for children. There will be ten songs developed and distributed to 51 schools (over 31,000 students) in and around the town in Ethiopia. These songs will cover a wide variety of social issues that were selected in collaboration with local organizations such as: Women's Association, Youth Association, HIV/AIDS Association, Health Center, Agricultural Office, Education Administration, and others. The music video collection will be distributed along with a supplementary teacher's guide, which contain lyrics of each song in English, Amharic and Tigrinya languages, pre and post-video discussion questions and follow up questions addressing sustainability. This teacher's guide encourages students to advocate for the messages in these songs and take their newfound knowledge into the communities in and around the town. This project aims to raise awareness on the highest priority social issues developed by the community and is targeted toward students. Each song will have subtitles in English.

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