The National Orientation Agency  has designed a programme called Theater For Development (TFD) to promoting exclusive breast feeding amongst nursing mothers.

 

TFD is a progression from less interactive theatre forms to a more dialogical process, where theatre is practiced with the people as a way of empowering communities, listening to their concerns, and then encouraging them to voice and solve their own problems.

 

Addressing the people of Avonkwu autonomous community, Olokoro, Umuahia South Local Government Area , Abia State, the Abia State NOA boss, Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Uduma said TFD as a participatory theatre practice, allows communities to write their own stories and perform in a drama based on the messages that emerge from the story telling process.

 

She said through TFD, communities would get involved on issues concerning essential family practices, benefits of antenatal and post natal services, child labour and trafficking, among others.

 

Dr. Uduma said focused antenatal services at least four times before child birth goes a long way in saving mother and the child from health hazards, death and other child birth complications.

Source: Daily Trust