Special State Department Screening of "Rien que la Verite"

Start: Jun 9 2009 12:00 pm

End: Jun 9 2009 2:57 pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

When: Tuesday, June 9

Where: The Marshall Auditorium, 21st St entrance of the State Department

Hosted by the Bureau of African Affairs, with an appearance by Project Director Ben Olander.

Rien que la Verite is a weekly television show with drama, music, and interviews, watched by an audience of three to five million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo every Sunday evening.

To increase awareness of HIV/AIDS prevention, the Public Affairs Section for the U.S. Embassy in Kinshasa, together with PEPFAR, USAID, and the Kinshasa Music Club, developed a novel approach of reaching Congolese youth, using a comprehensive awareness campaign centered around music and television as the primary messaging media.

Non-State Department staff must email their date of birth and driver's licence number and state of issuance to peacocknm2@state.gov by noon, June 8.