Until recently Wale Wale Kenya has headed a crowd funding campaign on Indigogo to raise money for the much needed studio. The youths here, as you may know, loves singing and dancing, and a studio is where the former can be put into reality and shared with world. Together our donors have raised 270.000 Kenyan … Continue reading The studio campaign
As our crowd funding campaign continues,we decided to start building the studio that will be the heart of Wale Wale Art and Media Center. With a successful campaign, soon you will be reached by new music and films from this place.
BEING IMPORTANT IN THE SOCIETY People say being who you are or making once own life a success is an individual effort, I believe strongly that in order for all this to happen, there is a combination of different aspects which maybe PARENTS,FRIENDS and the ENVIRONMENT we grow up in. Our parents are important in … Continue reading Meet the youths: Japheth Matika
Today it's payday in Sweden! Spend your money wisely and join our campaign! We have reached $1080 dollar and we have $4920 to go! Contribute to make this art & media center possible! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wale-wale-art-media-center
This Sunday we went to Arboretum Park. It was a day for teambuilding and fun!
We are taking the next step in the development of Wale Wale Kenya. Today we launch a campaign where we raise funds to build Wale Wale Art and Media Center in one of the rooms in Wale Wale Youth Center. The center will be a place to learn about, write, produce och distribute film, music … Continue reading Campaign for Wale Wale Art & Media Center
For the last couple of weeks we have been working on a longer and more comprehensive video where we want to tell the our story. This video is longer and goes more into detail in Kibera as an area and Wale Wale Kenya as an organisation. Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCQtBNG2o_o
TO SUCCEED IN LIFE NO MATTER WHERE YOU COME FROM Becoming succesful in life has been one of the things in minds of many youths their dreams all night is to be come succesful, good cars,big houses,a lot of money and of course a happy family. But one thing they are forgetting is that today's … Continue reading Meet the youths: Benard Avangi
Jeanette, a volunteer at Wale Wale Kenya had Kizomba workshops this weekend at the center. She is an experienced Kizomba teacher from Sweden and has been dancing all her life. Kizomba is a couple dance originally from Angola. The workshops were highly appreciated by the youths and everybody had a good time.
Wale Wale Sweden is our Swedish partner organisation. The aim of the Swedish branch is to spread the word of Wale Wale Kenya and to raise funds. Recently they launched their new homepage where you can get to know about their work and read about events and activities they do for Wale Wale Kenya.
This weekend our dancers did their first outreach performance since we became Wale Wale Kenya. An outreach is a performance where we try to educate the community through music and dance on issues that affect our society here in Kibera. It was done under the new name but with the same youth and the same … Continue reading Dancing Outreach in Kibera
Stephen Omondi is one of the members of Wale Wale Kenya. He is a talented filmmaker, educated at Hot Sun Film School in Nairobi. Recently he made a portfolio homepage where you can see the films he has done and get information about him as a filmmaker. Stephen is a vital part of the filmmaking … Continue reading Stephen Omondis homepage
One of our interns, Tora Wilhelmsson, is writing weekly reports for Katrineholms Kuriren a local news paper in Sweden. She writes about her work here at Wale Wale Kenya. One of the youths, Don Wilson, is contributing to these reports with his perspective on life in Kibera. You can read the first article HERE
Big news! More than three of the most influential Swedish news sites have acknowledged Zlatan Ibrahimovic´s response to Wale Wale Kenya's video ”We are the names on your body”. Aftonbladet, the biggest news site in Sweden, wrote that “Zlatan Ibrahimovic called out to try to stop hunger in the world. Now he has been replied … Continue reading Media Coverage
Wale Wale FC is our newly started football team. They practice and/or play matches every Saturday and Sunday The team focuses upon youths under the age of 14 but everybody is welcome to join the practices. For more information visit: https://walewalekenya.com/wale-wale-fc/
This last Saturday we had a kick-off barbeque at the center to celebrate the start of Wale Wale Kenya. We played games, we ate Nyama Choma (Grillen meet) and we danced. It was a great day.
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