MY PAINTINGS

WITHOUT PEACE THERE IS NO EDUCATION AND WITHOUT EDUCATION THERE IS NO LIFE

The painting shows how soldiers burn their weapons. We should have piece. let´s destroy all weapons. With peace we will get education. In the middle of the painting you see soldiers shaking hands and below them there are children who go to school. With peace we will get education and development. Let´s stay together in piece, we will get development.

LET´S KEEP PEACE BECAUSE WOMEN AND CHILDREN CAN´T RUN AWAY FROM WAR

The painting shows women running from war. We need peace because in war the women and children suffer most because they get problem to run away. The men run away and they leave women and children alone. So we need to keep piece.

John Kilaka fighting the corruption at the Tanzanian Ministry of Health

The artist John Kilaka reflects on the mounting evidence of procurement scandals at the ministry of Health in Tanzania which allegedly granted a single supplier with exclusive rights to provide HIV/AIDS laboratory equipment for National AIDS Control Programmes. This led to a broad public discussion with several front-pages in the national Kiswahili and English Press. Kilaka shows through his paintings that market monopolization and corruption are directly connected to the suffering of the people at the grass roots.

"John Kilaka vividly pictures an ancient game: The “haves” are eating and the “have nots” are dying!" By Natty Bongoman, Bongo Radio

"How can a Minister of Health look into the face of any Tanzanian Citizen as honourable Minister while he actively excludes children from best available and internationally demanded quality of controlled treatment ? Excluding children from best available services is bad, because "dealing" with children's lives also kills the future of Tanzania and human beings who deserve our special care and love." Blogspot of Dr.Rainel Brandl

For more story on the corruption scandal, see also www.pamoja.at

Le célèbre peintre tanzanien John Kilaka représente dans ses tableaux la souffrance des populations campagnardes face à la corruption concernant le commerce d'instruments destinés à des laboratoires chargés de traiter le SIDA. read in French

PICTURES FOR HIV PREVENTION

Pictures for HIV prevention is a collection of pictures - with guidelines for their use - that aims to help prevent HIV/AIDS by stimulating dialogue and discussion on issues such as using a condom, negotiating safe sex, parent-child communication, harassment, and transactional sex. According to the publishers, pictures are a useful tool to motivate children and young people to discuss issues. However, pictures can also reinforce (sometimes negative) stereotypes in HIV/AIDS prevention work, leading to stigma and discrimination. The people and images in picture work can become a focus of projection – for behaviour, or even attitudes - and participants run the risk of identifying themselves with the picture images, hindering productive discussions.

In the 1960s in Tanzania, the painter Edward Daidi Tingatinga created a new art movement using images of African wild animals. This style, today known as “Tingatinga”, is typical in Tanzania. John Kilaka is a contemporary representative artist of the Tingatinga style. In 2002, Kurt Madoerin of Humiliza and other organisations focusing on HIV/AIDS responses explored with John Kilaka the possibility of using the animal paintings in HIV/AIDS prevention work. Based on these discussions, John Kilaka created drawings and Kurt Madoerin wrote instructions on how to work with each drawing.

The set of pictures in this collection comes with corresponding guidelines for encouraging discussion, which the publishers suggest can be printed on the back of the images and laminated. Instructions include:

The pictures and instructions are available upon request by email from: Kurt Madoerin kurt@repssi.org