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.
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CFK in the News
Join the Club! (The Daily Tar Heel, 2008)
The Club is Open Festival offers a well selected entryway into local rock (The Independent Weekly, 2008)
UNC Student Meets a Soaked Price (News and Observer, 2008)
Hope Blooms in Africa (NEWSOK, 2008)
Student Perspective-Rye Barcott (The Harbus, 2008)
Memorial to honor group fighting poverty in Kenya (The Oklahoman, 2008)
Girls Count: A Global Investment & Action Agenda (Center for Global Development, 2008)
UNC has brought the world to us (Chapel Hill Herald, 2008)
The gift of giving: Extra donations are extra incentive for seniors to donate (Daily Tar Heel, 2008)
CFK founder addresses impact of Kenyan violence (Daily Tar Heel, 2008)
Musician pitches in for Kenya (San Jose Mercury News, 2008)
Violence subsides but families remain displaced in post-election Kenya (Fatuma Roba is a Binti Pamoja alumnus) (UNICEF, 2008)
(Daily Tar Heel, 2008)
CFK, even more than ever, is a great class gift (Daily Tar Heel, 2008)
Ethnic violence disrupts Kibera relief (Daily Tar Heel, 2008)
Carolina feels Kenya's Pain (News and Record, 2008)
Kenya's unrest halts UNC aid: Carolina for Kibera is reeling (News and Observer, 2008)
One girl’s story: Fatuma, 22, reports from Kenya's post-election conflict (UNICEF, 2008)
"From the Slum with Honours" (Sammy Gitau is a CFK Board Member) -(BBC, 2007) and an interview on BBC's The World
Carolina for Kibera, the focal point of the 2008 Senior Class Campaign, is developing a more stable, self-sustaining
business strategy by establishing a $4 million endowment (Daily Tar Heel, 2007)
27 local film shorts to play (Daily Tar Heel, 2007)
Power Women Group in Kibera! (Abenteuer Leben Blog, 2007)
Kenya: Former Street Children Out to Change Life in the City Slums (allAfrica, 2007)
Seniors Name Kibera for Gift (The Daily Tar Heel, 2007)
Lightbox-Book review (Business Response Magazine, 2007)
Inaugural Lecture Series of the Oxford Global Health Governance Project (Trinity Term, 2007)
How discarded wallet gave Kenyan boy a ticket out of the slums and into a British university (The Independent, 2007)
AJWS Grantees Featured at United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (Reuters, 2007)
TIME Magazine for Kids-Players with Pride (Time Magazine, 2007)
"Slum Tourism" stirs controversy in Kenya (Reuters, 2007)
The State of Things-Meet Rye Barcott (WUNC, 2007)
Rye Barcott named one of ABC World News "Persons of the Year" (ABC News, 2007)
Obama draws crowd on slum tour (BBC News, 2006)
Warm Hearts on a Cold Day: The Carolina For Kibera clinic involved more than soccer (Chapel Hill News, 2006)
URBAN DEVELOPMENT: A pressing concern (Financial Times, 2006)
Kennedy School, Law School students labor for Nairobi poor (Harvard Gazette, 2006)
When one good thing begets another (Carolina Connections, 2006)
Rye Barcott named ABC News Person of the Week (ABC News, 2006)
War veteran seeks peace in Iraq, Kibera (The Daily News [Jacksonville, NC], 2006
Students Take Service Mission Abroad (Daily Tar Heel, 2006)
Obama Visits Notorius Nairobi Slum (August, 2006)
U.S. Representative David Price to Visit North Carolinians Working in Kibera Slum of Nairobi, Kenya (website, 2006)
"Scholarships, New Clinic, CDC Partnership Mark Carolina for Kibera's Fifth Anniversary" (UNC - Chapel Hill, 2006)
CFK in the Blogsphere
Safe as Houses: Lend a Hand, 2007
