Billian Okoth runs Billian Music Family, a youth centre in the Mathare slum of Nairobi, Kenya. Through music and dance, Billian empowers youth to make change in their community, and in the process giving them a chance to dream of a brighter…
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Mathare music centre gives voice to Kenyan youth living in slum
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#RightsMedia report: #Childcare and #education for #Arusha #orphans
Happiness Wambura founded LOHADA – Loving Hand for the Disadvantaged and Aged – in 1998. She took in children from the streets of Arusha and began running an orphanage and, a few years later, a primary school in the city’s…
Tagged with: Africa, Arusha orphans, Camp Joshua, Camp Moses, Canadian volunteers, childcare, education, Happiness Wambura, human rights, kids, LOHADA, Mashono, orphanage, slum, tanzania, Unga L.T.D., Unga limited, Uswahilini
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The proliferation of e-waste in Africa (full length documentary)
Used – second hand- electronics arrive on the shores of Ghana to help bridge Africa’s digital divide. Much of what arrives from North America, Europe and Australia is beyond repair and ends up at an Accra slum known as “Sodom…
Tagged with: accra, adam bemma, Africa, cbc radio, digital divide, digital dumping ground, e-waste, electronic waste, environmental issues, Ghana, radio documentary, slum, sodom and gomorrah, the world this weekend
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