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.
NEWS
CFK has been featured in various print, film and multi-media publications around the globe.
Recent News
*Carolina for Kibera honored in Oklahoma City with the Reflections of Hope Award.
*Carolina for Kibera serves 25,000 people a year through a health clinic, a summer youth sports program staffed by UNC-CH volunteers and other programs. The organization has closed indefinitely because of rioting in the wake of last week's disputed presidential election. Read the story!
Listen to a NC Public Radio newscast with CFK founder Rye Barcott.
*Binti Pamoja alumnus Fatuma, 22, reports from Kenya's post-election conflict. "The centre of the violence [in Nairobi], in my opinion, is where I live. And it’s affecting everything,” she said from her home. Fatuma added that nothing in her community was running normally. Conflict has been affecting everything from electricity and water to food supplies. Some people have been forced to leave their homes, fearing for their lives. “Our lives are at a standstill,” she said. “It’s very tense and I’m scared.” Read the story!
*University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill senior class officials have decided which organization they will support as their class gift, following in the steps of the preceding class by donating money to a cause. Senior marshals voted unanimously to give to Carolina for Kibera - a nongovernmental organization that fights poverty and promotes nonviolence in Kenya. Read the story!
*Sammy Gitau, CFK-Kenya Board of Trustees Founding Member, presents as part of the Inaugural Lecture Series of the Oxford Global Health Governance Project at University College, Oxford. Read and watch his presentation here.
*CFK was profiled in the TIME Magazine for Kids article CFK-Players with Pride.
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Rye Barcott was honored as one of ABC World News "People of the Year" for his work with CFK. Watch the video here.
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Senator and 2008 Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama and Representative David Price Visit CFK (photo on right: Senator Obama with CFK-Kenya Executive Director Salim Mohamed in Kibera).
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Images from Kibera are featured in the video for musician Sarah McLachlan's song "World on Fire", from the album Afterglow. CFK would like to thank Ms. McLachlan and the World on Fire Foundation for their donation to the CFK Tabitha Clinic.
