This isn’t actually a No Strings training but it’s a photo we’re deeply proud of, showing staff in the Philippines who had attended our regional workshop months earlier. Five had come, and now 7,000 teachers had received training in the province of Rizal, where typhoons, floods and landslides are increasing in intensity. 

Children and parents were accompanying teachers to replant vulnerable hillsides with thousands of trees. 

It’s evidence of how passion for a particular methodology and awareness of need combine for dynamic change. 

No Strings’ in-country workshops serve both trainers-of-trainers and frontline staff. They are sensitive to the needs of facilitators with demanding schedules and who may not have used puppetry before, and are led by puppet and behaviour change experts with a focus on active participation and experiential learning. 

Trainings are joyous, week-long, intensive events that are followed with initial roll-out support, along with a full and detailed training manual and MEAL planning assistance.

We work closely with partners to understand needs and desired outcomes. A training might equip facilitators to deliver 12 two-hour psychosocial support (PSS) sessions, each building upon the latter. It might develop capacity in school teachers so that they can deliver effective WASH behaviour change campaigns whilst having pupils design low-cost systems and sustainable soap solutions that allow them to actually wash their hands. Or it might be built around fewer outreach sessions but at an ambitious scale that is aimed at whole communities.