Did You Know?

"Talk Straight," a music video by the Chapel Hill, North Carolina based band The Old Ceremony received the Gold Award for Best Music Based Video at the Everglades International Film Festival in South Africa. The video was produced by UNC Communications Professor Gorham Kindem and merges video footage from Kibera taken from volunteers of CFK, footage from the feature film Bend It Like Beckam and footage of the UNC Women's Soccer Team.

PRESS ARCHIVE

2001-2005

CFK in the News

Time Magazine's Heroes in Global Health" (Time, 2005)
"General Motors Partners with Carolina for Kibera" (Corporate Council on Africa, 2005)
"Binti Pamoja Becomes Self-Sustaining" (Our World, 2005)
"KENYA: Bridging the Reproductive Health Gap for Girls in Nairobi Slums" (PLUSNEWS, 2004)
"AIDS in Africa Thrives on Poverty and Stigma" (Reuters, 2003)
"Kenyan Slum Girls Use Camera Power to Fight Abuse" (Reuters NewMedia, 2003)
"Recent Alumna Helps Young Kenyan Women" (Columbia College Today, 2003)
"Columbia Alumna Curates Exhibition of Images of Struggle and Resilience" (Columbia News, 2003)
"Pickup Games" (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, 2002)
"Foreign Aid Recast as Tool to Stymie Terrorism" (The Christian Science Monitor, 2002)
"In Soccer, Kenya Sees Hope for an Anonymous Village" (AP, 2001)

Kibera in the News

"World Report 2003: Kenya" (Human Rights Watch, 2003)
"Powell Attacked in Kenya Over U.S. AIDS Policy" (Reuters NewMedia, 2001)
"Kenya's Slums: New Political Battleground" (The Christian Science Monitor, 2001)