Newsflash I Coaching on management
Every Saturday 2 project managers of the Mathare Projects are meeting Marcelle Senden to discuss issues they are facing in their daily work. They are both part of the Mathare management team and they are responsible for the kids, teens and youth groups, the microcredit project Mavuno youth, the projects involving Stop the Bullet, Green Heroes and the ICT project. The Mathare team consists of 5 staff members who have a meeting every week to discuss the day to day running of all the projects. Marcelle Senden will discuss teambuilding activities during these weekly meetings.
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Newsflash | Multi Media
Marcelle Senden and Wendy De Macker are working together with the Multi Media team in Mathare to make sure that there is a steady flow of information, reports and video to support the fund raising efforts of Duara.
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Newsflash | Gender
Wendy De Macker is training the Mathare Team on addressing the challenges and temptations members of the Teenz Group face growing up. We focus mostly on issues concerning Identity & Sexuality. We will first train the girls and the boys separate, and look at how they can become more aware of their own sexuality in relation to their identity, and to each other.
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Newsflash | Green Heroes
The environmental project of the Maji Mazuri Youth Group ‘Green Heroes’ is funded by Duara, and is making a vital impact in the ghetto Mathare. Every Saturday the youth organize cleanups, pick up garbage and sensitize the community about hygiene and safety. This project has now teamed up with UNEP, a major achievement. Wendy De Macker will join the Green Heroes in their weekly activities and at the same time she will help them expand and raise funds for the project.
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Newsflash | Food 4 Thought
The Duara project ‘Food 4 Thought’ provides over 300 children, attending the Maji Mazuri Headstart School in the ghetto Mathare, with a daily nutritious meal. Over the past year food prices have almost doubled, making it more difficult for Maji Mazuri to meet these needs of the students, hence making it even more urgent for Duara to support this project. Marcelle will assist the school in expanding this project to enable more children in Mathare to benefit.
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Newsflash | Mazungumzo Mtaani
One of the projects Naomi van Stapele will work on with the Mathare team is ‘conversations in the ghetto’ (mazungumzo mtaani). These dialogues bring antagonistic groups together and encourage debates on topical issues that will help to share experiences and heal rifts. She will also work with the team towards making a documentary of this project that will be screened throughout the ghetto to promote peace in the run-up to the next elections.
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Newsflash | Equip
After completing the first introduction in May 2011, Wendy De Macker will now continue with the implementation of the counseling method Equip for delinquent youth. Equip is a groups counseling method that challenges thinking errors and tackles delinquent behavior. She will train the Mathare team to introduce this method to the Maji Mazuri Youth Group, and they will translate the method to match it with the specific environment of the Mathare ghetto.
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Newsflash | Coaching on Management
Marcelle Senden, a long-term member of Duara, will coach the project managers of the Mathare Projects on management and leadership skills. Also, she will assist the project managers in local fundraising and administration issues. She will thus help to implement the Talent Program, and focus on the areas of capacity building needed to work towards self-sufficiency.
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Newsflash | STOP the BULLET!
Naomi van Stapele, chair of Duara, will work with the Mathare team on further implementing STOP the BULLET!, a platform of different community based organizations engaged in peace promotion activities in the Mathare ghetto. This is a vital platform seeing that it is an election year and all members are adamant to avoid the violence that followed the last elections in 2007.
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Newsflash – Counseling in Mathare
Wendy De Macker, long-time member of Duara, works as a counselor with delinquent youth and families and has over 12 years of experience in the Netherlands. She will now share her expertise with the Mathare Team for the next 9 weeks. They will work together on implementing a new method of counseling within the projects, geared towards empowering individuals, families and (youth)groups.
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Newsflash – Duara leaves 4 Mathare
Three Duara members, Wendy De Macker, Marcelle Senden and Naomi van Stapele, will travel to Kenya from 28 April to 1 July, to work in Mathare on local projects that help youth in this ghetto to avoid a life of crime, develop their talents and build meaningful lives. We will keep you updated on our progress per project activity.
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Fire in Mathare | 3 people died
We kindly ask for your help to support these families to rebuild their lives.
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With much gratitude,
Naomi van Stapele
Chair of Duara
R.I.P. Nyash Mzukah Kurukah
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
R.I.P Bro – soulbrother Pato Shobz – Ghetto Films Nairobi
Nyash Mzukah Kurukah: our friend has been shot dead in Kenya yesterday evening. We can’t believe this has happened, we are in shock. We can’t stop thinking about Pato Shobz, his friends, his wife, 2 children and family. The unmeasurable void he left behind, also for Nairobi and Kenya as a whole! He was a true warrior of peace and justice, he was an inspirational and wise leader in his community, he achieved unimaginable hights for his community, a poineer in every sense of the word. His death cannot go unnoticed, in his name we need to continue his struggle and fight for justice and freedom in Nairobi ghettos, for the right to live, build a life and grow old! We love you, Nyash.
Naomi van Stapele & Wendy De Macker – Duara Foundation
