Eh!woza brings biomedical research, lived experience and creative practice into a new kind of space. Founded in Khayelitsha in 2013, we work collaboratively with young people, artists, scientists and researchers to explore issues of health and disease.
Our work stretches from Cape Town to the rural Eastern Cape, with projects ranging from TB, HIV and cancer to antimicrobial resistance across people, livestock and the environment, and climate-health research on flooding, sanitation and disease. We place scientific knowledge alongside local knowledge and lived experience, with collaborators helping to develop the questions that shape the research.
Creative practice forms part of the research process. Film, photography and animation allow collaborators to investigate health questions, document lived experience and communicate complex research beyond academic spaces.
Research informs our programmes, with local experience and insight feeding scientific practice. This exchange takes place through youth programmes, science communication, documentary filmmaking, photography, community-led research, co-design and scholarly work.
Eh!woza has grown from a small youth programme into a multidisciplinary organisation working across research, public engagement and creative practice. Many people who first joined Eh!woza through our programmes have gone on to work within the organisation as filmmakers, facilitators and project staff, carrying experience and contextual knowledge into new projects.
Eh!woza is based at the Isivivana Centre in Khayelitsha, Cape Town.
NPC: 2018/371328/08
NPO: 223 233
PBO Section 18A: 930071907
NPO: 223 233
PBO Section 18A: 930071907
For collaborations, questions or more information, contact info@ehwoza.com, use our web submission form or find us on social media.
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