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
"Former Street Boy Brings Hope to Kenyan Slum" (Sammy Gitau is a CFK Board Member) -(Reuters Foundation, 2005) 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)
"Among Our Key People" (The Key Reporter, 2003)
"Picturing Change: Young Kenyan Women Document Slum Life" (The Free Lance Star, 2003)
"Kenyan Slum Girls Use Camera Power to Fight Abuse" (Reuters NewMedia, 2003)
"Images of Struggle and Resilience: Photo Exhibit Open Through February 13" (Columbia College, 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)
BBC Interview (BBC "The World, 2002)
"A World Away from Rhode Island, A Young Man Capitalizes on Hope in a Kenya Slum" (The Providence Journal, 2001)
"In Soccer, Kenya Sees Hope for an Anonymous Village" (AP, 2001)
Reuter's Africa Journal (Video Clip) (Reuters, 2001)
Kibera in the News
"Powell Talks with Young Kenyans About HIV/AIDS" (U.S. State Deparment, 2005)
"Children on the Brink 2004" (USAID, 2004)
"World Report 2003: Kenya" (Human Rights Watch, 2003)
"Kibera and the Politics of Dispossesion" (The East African, 2002)
"Powell Attacked in Kenya Over U.S. AIDS Policy" (Reuters NewMedia, 2001)
"Powell Visits Kenyan HIV/AIDS Outreach Community Program" (U.S. State Deparment, 2001)
"Kenya's Slums: New Political Battleground" (The Christian Science Monitor, 2001)
"Focus On Clashes in Kibera Slum, Nairobi" (UN IRIN, 2001)
