No Strings programmes are designed to be delivered by local teachers, facilitators and community workers. Our role is to equip them with the practical skills, understanding and resources they need to use the approach in their own setting, and to support them as delivery begins.

The photograph above is not actually from a No Strings training. It shows something we are particularly proud of.

Months earlier, five staff from the Philippines had attended one of our regional workshops. They returned home and began sharing what they had learned. In the province of Rizal, around 7,000 teachers subsequently received training, helping schools and communities respond to the risks posed by typhoons, floods and landslides. Children and parents joined teachers in replanting vulnerable hillsides with thousands of trees.

For us, it is a powerful example of what can happen when people connect strongly with an approach and see how it can respond to a real need in their own communities.

No Strings runs in-country workshops for both trainers-of-trainers and frontline practitioners. Many participants have demanding workloads and little or no previous experience of puppetry, so training is highly practical and experiential. Participants learn by doing: making puppets breathe and move, facilitating activities, exploring stories and practising the sessions they will later deliver.

Whatever the subject, the aim is the same: to give local facilitators a practical, participatory method they can make meaningful in their own setting.