Program This Week:
Darren Collins and Project HAND UP
Darren Collins is the co-founder and acting director of Project HAND UP. Darren has taught over 20,000 people the art of puppetry for education in over fifteen countries and forty-five states.
Darren began teaching puppetry for crime and drug abuse prevention in the mid 90s at the America's PRIDE and DARE conferences. In 1999 he made his first journey to Cambodia to help develop water-borne illness puppet presentations. There, he also penned germ theory videos that aired on government television in Myanmar.
For fifteen years as a family entertainer, he performed educational variety shows designed to inspire and teach his audiences about health, drug abuse, and social justice.
In 2017 Collins received the Service Above Self Award from the Rotary Foundation. He is a graduate of Rotary University, the Rotary International Leadership Institute and is a Paul Harris Fellow.
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