Brief history: Youth Theatre, Uganda (formerly New Age Stories and Films, Uganda) is a registered not for profit organization founded in 2008 with the mission of sensitizing communities or target groups on Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights, Gender Based Violence and Mental Health while using live and or recorded video skits (short plays). Other topics include but not limited to Empowerment of Women, Antenatal and Postnatal care, Mental Health, Teenage pregnancy, Human rights, HIV/Aids, Family Planning, Girl-child education, domestic violence and so on. Youth Theatre Uganda also empowers school dropout teenagers with entrepreneurship skills to sustain their lives.
Why use skits for sensitization?
Unlike the everyday talking while addressing challenges, drama passes on a message with entertainment, with dramatic catchy phrases and it leaves behind lasting memories. With drama, the audience places themselves in the shoes of particular actors and hence adapting to their solutions to a particular challenge. Naturally, people believe more by seeing and this is what drama does because it brings them closer to reality than just the talking about something in an everyday way. Drama is manifestation of the saying “A picture paints a thousand words” and “seeing is believing”

Vision:To have the best life for everyone!

Mission: To sensitize communities about health and everyday life challenges and as well create awareness about the same through live and or video skits.