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WINNERS
JANE MWEU

INDIVIDUAL CATEGORY

Jane is a 43 year old single mother and a grandmother to 5 grand children she has also adopted a 13 year old girl who was orphaned by the post election violence. She supports her grandchildren through small scale farming in Kiambaa, Eldoret.

Jane was hiding out in the Kiambaa church late 2007 after the presidential announcement. When the church was set ablaze she managed to escape from the blaze, she did not escape unhurt that night as she was stoned. She hid in the nearby toilet with some children.

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AMANI KIBERA

CBO CATEGORY

The Main focus is improved youth community participation in peace building, conflict management and active nonviolence through sports, culture and education in Nairobi Kibera slums. Our community approach is through mentoring, exchange and direct intervention and networking.

Amani Kibera can thus be described as a vehicle for youth development, information exchange, training, networking, and youth leadership, Hence we ascertain ourselves through networking and partnership and or mentorship so as to become a center where youth would Share and seek assistance in all aspects of their lives and nature their talent to make them productive people in life and development.

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THE RAFIKI CLUB

CSO CATEGORY

Rafiki club is non profit organization working to empower women and girls in rural Africa. Main programs are on Adult education, mentorship for girls, health and enterprise development for women.

The Rafiki Club is an initiative that gathers women from different parts of Kenya to write and exchange letters to their counterparts within the country and abroad. The Rafiki club begun as an initiative to empower rural women with literacy.

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RUNNERS UP

INDIVIDUAL CATEGORY

1. Larry Liza, Nairobi (28)

LARRY LIZA has recited poems since the age of 4 on socio-eco-political and spiritual realm, touching thousands of lives with electrifying and unique presentations.

He amazes his audience with his poems, laced with a message of peace, in education, love, gender violence, faith & determination, environment & nature, women issues among others. He brought thousands to tears with a poem on Kenya’s Post Election Violence poem ‘Beyond the Difference’ in 2008, calling for peace, hope and love.

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