The Youth Café and its partners are currently implementing a FORD Foundation-funded project aimed at engaging the youth against corruption and closing civic space in Kenya. In this project we are working to build the power of young Kenyans to impact government policies, uphold their rights, and fight against corruption and closing civic space through transparency and accountability, deepening of media coverage and assessment of governance reforms.
As part of the activities in this project, a photo and video competition was created where contestants between the ages of 18 and 35 were expected to represent their scenarios of corruption through the photo and video mediums. The goals of this competition were to create awareness on corruption and the closing civic space in Kenya, start conversations on corruption and ways to mitigate it, elevate the voices of the youth in the matter and use art as a creative form of mitigating corruption.
Out of the 100,000 participants that took part in the competition, 14 finalists were shortlisted. A virtual video/photo award ceremony on the 23rd of September 2021 took place where the top three finalists were announced. These finalists were Boniface Munene, Brian Odhiambo and Damaris Aswa.
On 30th September 2021 The Youth Café will conduct the physical video/photo award ceremony at their offices at Kitisuru Gardens to officially present the winners with their awards. The event will be broadcasted live on our Facebook page. Several key players will attend including the 3 finalists, members of The Youth Café, invited guests Amos Onyango and Nerima Wako-Ojiwa and our keynote speaker, Mr Samuel Kimeu, the Executive Director of Africa’s Voices Foundation.
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