The Wale Wale Dancers performed yesterday at the popular Masai Market which is being held every thursday at the Junction Mall. The dancers have been training very hard for this event, which was noticeable during the show. The performance was split in to 6 rounds of dancing, during the hours of 9-17. These rounds of … Continue reading Performance at Junction Mall
Soon April is coming to an end, and with it the end of the workshops. During the vacation youth from different schools in Kibera have had the chance to come to Wale Wale and participate in different workshops in music, blog and film. These workshops have been led by our competent project leaders which previously … Continue reading Workshops in film, blog and music.
Last weekend we had a registration open at Wale Wale Center where youths from different schools in Kibera came to sign up. The registration was for the upcoming workshops in music, film and blogging. Our project leaders were previously educated in music and film training, and the blog training is under progress this week. Next … Continue reading Registration
Wale Wale Kenya has together with the Swedish School in Nairobi started a project which will run through March and April. The idea of the project is that the youth from Wale Wale Kenya and the youth from the Swedish School will together in different groups use creative expressions to describe life in Kibera, in … Continue reading Creative exchange with Swedish School
Wale Wale Kenya’s annual meeting took place this Saturday. The annual report and the financial report was presented to the members. Overall, the organisation has achieved everything we set out to do for the year of 2015. One of the most important parts of this meeting was voting for the new board of Wale Wale … Continue reading WWK Annual meeting
This past week Shamir Kenya and Simon Krushal has been leading a workshop in music production at Wale Wale youth center. The participants Benedict Avangi, Japhet Matika and Kevins Otieno have been practicing playing the guitar and recording their own music in our studio. They even got to meet the music producer and radio personality Mzazi … Continue reading Workshop in music production
For two days, the project leaders for the music, film and blogg projects at Wale Wale Kenya, have been participating in a workshop in project management. The workshop was led by the company Nett Consultants and was financed with the grant that Wale Wale Kenya received from the French Embassy, Social Fund for Development. The … Continue reading Workshop in project management
This time of year it is natural to summarise the past year and make plans for the new one. This is the case here at Wale Wale too. We have compiled an activity report which summarises what happened at the centre during last year and it is amazing to see how much that has happened! … Continue reading Summarising 2015
With the holiday season just starting we are very happy to announce that a new international Wale Wale branch has been added to the Wale Wale family - Wale Wale USA! Gianna Biaggi, an American intern who has been with us for most of the autumn, is the founder and chairperson of this new foundation. … Continue reading Wale Wale USA
As many of our supporters and friends already know, Wale Wale Kenya has been awarded a grant from the French Embassy´s Social Fund for Development. The purpose of the fund is to support different development projects in Kenya. Out of 239 applicants, Wale Wale Kenya was among the four organisations chosen for the grant. The € 8 … Continue reading Co-operation with the French Embassy in Kenya
The 31st of October was the last day of this years school fee campaign. A big thank you to all the amazing people who have contributed! It is a real pleasure to announce that we have raised € 5 984! Our goal was € 4 000 and we are happy and grateful that we managed to … Continue reading SCHOOL FEE CAMPAIGN 2015
Claire Khalenya. one of the 16 youths included in 2016 years school fee program, will in this clip tell you why this support is important to her and other youths in Kenya! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3JCx8L-sJE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prZK-PZRytA Wale wale did this big outreach around different places in Nairobi. The outreach consisted of different kinds of dances with funny acted dramas that caught the big audiences attention.The outreach is an ongoing program that has been created by the dance committee with different committees involved in it such as the filming committee,acting committee … Continue reading WALE WALE BIG OUTREACH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRPwAy5o4C4 A few weeks back the Wale Wale Kenya film team with Don Wilson and Stephen Omondi in the front line released the first episode in the series Out Talk Nation. Out Talk Nation is a way to share common but important stories from Kibera och elsewhere and let these stories give a fuller, more diverse … Continue reading Out Talk Nation 2nd Episode
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