Website: https://www.wansmolbag.org/
Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/WSBTheatre/
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Email: info@wansmolbag.org
Wan Smolbag (WSB) is a grassroots NGO based in Vanuatu. WSB started as a group of 15 voluntary actors in 1989 who wanted to create a community theatre group that would take plays about topical issues to schools and communities, and now has over 140 full and part-time staff and over 400 volunteers.
WSB has expanded and now has youth centres in Vila, Luganville on the island of Santo, and a community centre in Pentecost. The Vila youth centre also has a nutrition house, and an all weather sports field for basket ball, futsal and hockey. Kam Pusum Hed or KPH family planning clinic also runs out of the Port Vila centre with three full time nurses and a group of young peer educators who inform young people about contraception and STI’s. Attached to KPH are V Pride, Vanuatu’s own LGBTQI group, advocating for fair treatment for sexual minorities. Wan Smolbag also hosts the Vanuatai turtle monitors network, with over 400 members throughout the islands, working to help with land and sea conservation efforts. The group also has strong connections with many peri-urban settlement areas around the centre in Port Vila.
Wan Smolbag is core funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs, the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Oxfam. WSB has produced many films over the years, including a 10-part television series, Love Patrol, that ran for 8 seasons and was shown all over the Pacific. WSB still produces films every year, as well as comic books, booklets and posters for communities, NGOs, schools and government departments. Wan Smolbag’s materials are distributed throughout the South Pacific and have reached many countries outside our region.