NAFSI AFRICA IN KENYA

Hundreds of children and youth from Nairobi’s slums engage in Nafsi’s cultural and media activities. It gives them purpose, confidence and new opportunities.

NAFSI AFRICA IN KENYA

Hundreds of children and youth from Nairobi’s slums engage in Nafsi’s cultural and media activities. It gives them purpose, confidence and new opportunities.

“Nafsi” means “soul”, and “Nafsi Africa” is the “soul of Africa”.

In the slums of Nairobi, Nafsi’s trainers go out every week to teach hundreds of children and young people acrobatics, dance and music.

Taking place on construction sites and in schoolyards, Nafsi is both an exciting break from the daily grind and a hope for a different future

Watch video about Nafsi Africa in Kenya.

Spor Media has been working with Nafsi since 2014.

On this page you can see and read about Nafsi’s tours in Denmark, virtual study trips to Nafsi in Kenya and a project that gives young Kenyans the tools to communicate their reality to others.

 

 

DISCOVER OUR PROJECTS

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TANGAZA
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TANGAZA

The Tangaza project emerged during corona and has become a sought-after course for young people who want to be better at using their smartphones to communicate about important issues in the slums.

When Nafsi Africa joined Spor Media’s virtual study tours Global Stay Tours during the coronavirus pandemic, the young cultural guides had to learn how to use their smartphones for online meetings and tours.

It has evolved into a professional and popular course called Tangaza (Swahili for ‘say it out loud’).

The courses enable more and more young people to use their smartphones for podcasts and YouTube videos.

The content is about the reality young people face with unequal gender relations, poor sanitary conditions, poor infrastructure, etc.

Participants are also tasked with making larger productions, and the first team to graduate from Tangaza made a
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about climate activist Kisilu Musya.

Some of the young people have taken the initiative to
Nafsi’s own radio station
which plays music and discusses issues relevant to the youth in the slums.

Watch video about Tangaza.

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WILD WALLS

How do we learn about our endangered biodiversity – and about animals and plants elsewhere in the world? Project Wild Walls – Wild Walls makes an offer.

How do we learn about our endangered biodiversity – and about animals and plants elsewhere in the world? Project Wild Walls – Wild Walls makes an offer.

What happens when kids across continents work together on important topics?

And can you do it online?

In the Wild Walls project, the 6th graders at Jyderup School worked with children and young people from the art organization Art360 Kibera to depict the endangered biodiversity in both Denmark and Kenya.

They researched their own nature and with the help of Nafsi Africa and Spor Media, they exchanged photos and sketches and met online.

In Denmark, adult artists from ‘Børn maler stort’ were responsible for the artistic execution, and the visible results are two giant murals in two different locations. Kibera and in Jyderup.

Read more on the
Global Kids website.

 

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MANZI RADA
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MANZI RADA

Acrobatics appeals less to girls and women, and to get a more equal gender distribution, Nafsi opened a small music school primarily for girls. And then something happened.

Acrobatics appeals less to girls and women, and to get a more equal gender distribution, Nafsi opened a small music school primarily for girls. And then something happened.

Project Manzi Rada (‘Girls be ready’) was supported by CISU and resulted in many more girls and women becoming active in Nafsi at different levels – as participants, coaches and board members.

Through workshops and concrete initiatives, the project showed new ways in which Nafsi can use performing arts to address important challenges in society.

It has meant a lot to both participants and coaches who have been inspiredto create more performances with content.

With the project, the number of young participants in Nafsi’s training in the slums has increased by 50%, and most of the new participants are girls or young women.

Some of the music students have formed the female band Pepea Afrik (‘Fly Africa’).

The young women compose and write their own melodies and lyrics and have become role models for other girls in the slums.

As part of Nafsi’s outreach program, musicians are now teaching younger children in the slums

Watch the documentary about Manzi Rada.

Read and see more about the project here.

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NAFSI SKOLEFOND
NAFSI SKOLEFOND

Children training with Nafsi have to attend school, but not all children have parents who can buy school uniforms and pay teachers for homework help.

Children training with Nafsi have to attend school, but not all children have parents who can buy school uniforms and pay teachers for homework help.

In the slums where Nafsi Africa works, people live very, very close together.

Unemployment is high and many women are single parents.

Although school is free in principle, many families struggle to afford books, school uniforms and to pay teachers for the extra tuition needed to learn.

To keep children in school, Nafsi and Spor Media have set up a school fund to help the most disadvantaged children.

The fund is administered by Spor Media in Denmark, and in Kenya, Nafsi has a small team that follows up on the schooling of each child or young person.

Support the Nafsi School and Education Fund. The money goes directly to the children’s schooling.

Fundraising for Nafsi School Fund – accounts 22-23

 

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NAFSI PÅ TURNÉ
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Nafsi Africa is happy to send artists on international tours, and Spor Media’s Global Kids project has organized visits to Danish schools and cultural institutions four times.

Nafsi Africa is happy to send artists on international tours, and Spor Media’s Global Kids project has organized visits to Danish schools and cultural institutions four times.

Visiting children’s and youth culture groups gives Danish children and young people a sense of community with their peers in other parts of the world.

They see that despite difficult living conditions, Kenyan artists have a lot to share – both professionally and personally.

The performances the groups come to Denmark with are related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and emphasize the shared responsibility for the future of the planet.

Watch the ‘Are you ready’ video from Nafsi’s 2019 tour.

Watch the video “My Planet” from Nafsi Africa’s tour in Denmark 2022.

 

 

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GLOBAL STAY TOURS
GLOBAL STAY TOURS

When the global corona pandemic put an end to all physical travel, Nafsi became an important partner in Spor Media’s virtual study tours Global Stay Tours.

 

When the global corona pandemic put an end to all physical travel, Nafsi became an important partner in Spor Media’s virtual study tours Global Stay Tours.

Global Stay Tours are digital study tours from the classroom with a focus on dialog, personal engagement, community and sustainable development.

The trips are primarily aimed at high school level, where students have good language skills.

The virtual trips are a real and sustainable alternative or supplement to traditional study trips, and the cultural guides from Nafsi and Spor Media’s partner organization in Bolivia are excellent at showing Danish students around their reality.

Find out more on the project website.

 

 

Global Stay Tours are digital study tours from the classroom with a focus on dialog, personal engagement, community and sustainable development.

The trips are primarily aimed at high school level, where students have good language skills.

The virtual trips are a real and sustainable alternative or supplement to traditional study trips, and the cultural guides from Nafsi and Spor Media’s partner organization in Bolivia are excellent at showing Danish students around their reality.

Find out more on the project website.

 

 

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