BE THE CHANGE
Hi! My name is Cecilia and I am a new intern here at Wale Wale Kenya. I am studying Human Rights in Sweden and during our fifth semester of the program we are doing an internship to deepen our knowledge in something we are especially interested in, and getting the opportunity to use our [...]
The Academic follow up program has been very helpful in identifying areas where the kids were having problems in school work.Over the course of last year we were able to identify most of the individual kids weak areas or subjects they were lagging behind in. This year to make it more effective we are trying [...]
As from the beginning of last year we decided to change the structure of the organisation and one part of the changes was that we redefined our target age group.Previous to that we did not have a clear age limit for when our members actually exited from the program.We decided to set up a program [...]
As we all know the documetary about our show Don´t Beat our Future is now out. And this week on Wensday Wale Wale Kenya went to a certain school in Kibera (Furaha High School) to air the film as a way of reaching out to the community and also to educate the students on the ways [...]
The Wale Wale dance program main purpose is to let young people from Kibera ages between 7-25 years explore and develop their talents in dance. Also use dance as a way to highlight, bring awareness about and discuss different social questions and issues in Kibera as well as in other places in Nairobi and Kenya. [...]
A new project has started at Wale Wale Kenya: Out talk Nation. The aim of this project is to give voice to the many different existences, that live together in the slums. Two of our own youths, Don and Steven, from Wale Wale go out into the slum, where they themselves live their daily lives, [...]
“Petter, the keys..!? Thanks, see you in a bit.” The people on cleaning duty for the day pick up the keys and open the center around 08:30 in the morning and mop the floors before the rest arrive at 09:00. Every morning starts with a short meeting, where everyone describes their plans for the day, [...]
