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Indus Theatre Development Organization Khairpur Mir’s Sindh

•	Organizational Profile Indus Theatre Development Organization (ITDO) has been appeared by Indus Theatre Group (ITG). Indus Theatre Group was working since 2002, in the July 2011 Indus Theatre Group registered as Indus Theatre Development organization (ITDO) under Social Welfare act. ITDO has been working under vision of a society in which everyone knows and understands about his/her rights, issues, challenges and to take conscious efforts for solving them up to the best of his/her capacity. Theatre is one of the tool, which has proved to be very effective worldwide for highlighting and addressing social development issues, the idea is to bring forth issues and present them in the form of drama; this provides entertainment to the community on one hand and food for thought on certain hard core issues on the other. ITDO is using different types of theatres as channel of sensitizing and raising awareness on various social issues among communities. There are many ideas and techniques of theatre, one of the most coming from the Brazilian Theatre practitioner Augusto Boal is Inter-active Theatre that has following level: 	Image Theatre: in these types of theatre, actors use their bodies to create frozen images of situation. This is done through modeling each other to create ever more complex, silence tableaus which can be animated and analyzed in different ways. 	Interactive theatre: interactive theatre is an answer to all these questions. In interactive theatre you speak truth and make deliberate social error. After theatre performance community itself gives comments and suggestions to make changes and adjustments. Thereof, there is no fear that someone might prove you wrong as you did not have to answers, instead you raise a question and community gives the answers. As the community finding solution to a problem and challenging the norms themselves, there is no fear of opposition from the community. Finally you don’t required resources to perform a drama it can be performed anywhere of street under trees, community centers, school, and theatre halls etc, because in this sort of intervention provides an alternate approach to development. 	Street theatre: street theatre is a form of theatrical performance and presentation in outdoor public spaces without a specific paying audience. The logistics of doing street theatre in necessitates simple costumes and props and generally there is little or no amplification of sound with actors depending on their natural vocal and physical ability. The performances need to be highly visible, loud and simple to follow in order to attract a crowd. 	Story telling (song making) theatre: a thousand years ago, strolling and traveling “players” where cultural and political ambassadors, brining news and innovative ways of understanding the world at large to remote corners of a realm. Through song, dance, and storytelling, actors inform the spread of modern ideas, practices and news items.

•	Nature of Group This group is living rural life belongs to village Hussainabad; it’s about 8 kilometers away from Khairpur city, and 5 kilometers away from the Shah Abdul Latef University Khairpur mirs sindh. Group meets in evenings and opens dialogues and discussions on particular issues of a targeted area for targeted communities. We collect data, observations, thoughts of different peoples; then we design a story, first we search out the main problems in the targeted area. Then we practice and make a story with dialogues and music, we prepare ourselves for the audience, and we travel from village to village. And Indus theatre groups is very well known community theatre group in the interior sindh, group uses sindhi, siraiki, and urdu languages for performances. we perform everywhere for example in schools, Halls, play grounds, Markets, on mountains, on the roads, hotels, auditorium, Streets, where we see some good location for theatre. Before performance we invite the peoples and circulate the banners, and announce on FM radio. Theatre is a healthy activity which engages all the society. ITDO believes that theatre is a little stone in water; we give an entertaining and meaningful plate form to the peoples to express. We believe that theatre performs a role of mirror, in which community identifies itself and then they try to remove their errors, their mistakes through interaction. We use theatre for awareness and raising questions, and conflict solutions. We believe that through music and poetry of mystic saint we can create peace, love, tolerance and harmony. Group has about 20 young members; working committee is as under: Name	         Designation	            Qualification	          Experience (in years)                 Profession Islamuddin	 Executive Director	    (Diploma in Performing Arts) 	9	                        Pvt: Employee M.A Sociology Shujaat Ali	 Theatre Coordinator	     B.A (Economics) M.A (Media Studies)cont:	       6	                        Student Suhail Ahmed	 Assistant	             B.A (Sociology)	                8	                        Businessman Farzan Ali	 Actor	                     B.S (Economics)	                4	                        Student M. Hussain	 Music Director	     B.A	                        27	                        Musician Haji Panhwar	 Singer	             Primary	                        30	                        Laborer

Group performs different types of theatres with the collaboration of various NGOs in targeted areas on different issues. We have worked with these organizations and accomplished projects successfully: S No	Organization	                               Donor	                 Theme	                             Year 1.	National Rural Support Program (NRSP Badin) 	PPAF	          Preparedness of flood 	       June- August 2012 2.	Sindh Rural Support Organization	       PPAF	        Wood Cutting, NIC Registration, Environmental Pollution, Violence against women, Importance of Mother. 2009-13 3.	Indus Resource Centre Khairpur	              Unicef, DIL, Pakard, Paiman, UN-HABITAT, ESRA, Action Aid, PPAF, TAF, FAFEN, JSI, Save The Children	Girls Education, Health & Hygiene, 3 Delays, T.T Vaccination, Vote Registration, Mother & New Born care, HIV Aids, Gender Equality, Water Sanitation, Violence against Women	2002-13 4.		Layari Development Organization	Action Aid, Paiman	Social Harmony, 3 Delays, Mother & New born care, Vote Registration	2006-10 5.		Bhitai Social Watch and Advocay	Oxfam, Novib, Pakard	Social Harmony, Peace	2008-13 6.		Sindh Development Society		Social Harmony	2007 7.		Goth Seenghar Foundation	Transparency Int:	Corruption	2011 8.		Khairpur Rural Development Organization	Paiman	Mother & New born care, 3 Delays	2009-13 9.		Interactive Resource centre	PPAF	Violence Against Women	2006 10.		Bull’s Eye Karachi	Nokia	Advertise new Cell phones	2009 11.		Cavish Development Foundation 	US Aid	Voter Education 	2007

•	Major Achievements

	One member of the group has completed his graduation in Theatre Arts from National Academy of Performing Art (NAPA) Karachi 	Five theaters performed in various villages of district Ghotki with the contribution of Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) in 2011. 	Seven Puppet Shows organized in the schools of Indus Resource Centre (irc) Khairpur with the collaboration of Pakard in 2011. 	Performed theatres on the issues of Peace and Social Harmony in the Mega Events organized by Bhittai Social Watch and Advocacy (BSWA) Khairpur, funded by Oxfam in 2010. 	Won Multan theatre festival organized by Interactive Resource Centre (IRC) Lahore in 2006. 	Successfully done the project of commercial theatres in all over the Sindh with the collaboration of Nokia in 2009.

•	Our Philosophy In situations where there is profound distrust, fear and anger, theatre is a useful medium to bring people together to share stories and trigger emotional responses. The model of using participatory learning methods to explore a group's main concerns and then creating a play in order to debate the issues could be used in many situations. Theatre is a liberating and unifying experience as well as being fun. Follow-up is essential, however, in order to turn the community's reflection into action.

•	Contact Persons

1.	Name:		Islamuddin Khaskheli Designation: 	Executive Director -ITDO Cell No:		0333-7583829 E-mail:		silkykhaskheli@yahoo.com

2.	     Name:		Shujat Ali Laghari Designation:	Theatre Coordinator Cell No:		0332-2733405 E-mail:		shujaatlaghari@gmail.com