Duara http://duara.org Thu, 17 May 2012 10:15:32 +0000 en hourly 1 Welcome! http://duara.org/2012/05/welcome-12/ http://duara.org/2012/05/welcome-12/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 10:15:32 +0000 wendy http://duara.org/?p=1987 Karibu Sana (welcome) to the site of Duara Foundation.
Duara Foundation is a partner organisation of the Kenyan NGO Maji Mazuri. We work with youth from the ghetto Mathare Valley in Nairobi, Kenya.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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