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Nansanet: Building Community Journalism in Nansana, Uganda
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The original group of volunteers who started
planning the Nansanet project in 2012.
planning the Nansanet project in 2012.
Nansanet is our project to build an online, interactive news source for the Nansana community. As a start, we have opened a Facebook group with over 1600 members, and more joining every day, where people throughout the town are invited to post comments, stories and and ideas. Volunteer Emily Kembabazi is administering the group, with support from Kisa Foundation USA and Kiyita Family Alliance...partners in the project. Kisa Foundation USA has donated funds, laptops, cameras and editorial assistance to help get things started. Clark Internet Inc. of Mill Creek, Washington, will donate a completely functioning news website when we are ready to go online.
We're in the process of raising funds for this exciting adventure in community journalism. (You can help!
Emily Kembabazi is an eager Nansanet volunteer who recently graduated from UMCAT School of Journalism. She is writing stories and administering the Nansanet Facebook group page.
Photos from recent Kisa Foundation projects
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Peter Kibanyi's project connects prisoners and art
Peter Kibanyi, KFUSA Treasurer has started a new project to recognize and publicize artwork created by inmates in U.S. jails and prisons. The project, 1heartart.org was recently profiled in Huffington Post, an online news service.
1HeartArt raises funds for former inmates pursuing art, as well as for students whose parents are serving time in prison. They also offer a penpal program inviting anyone to write a letter and form a connection with an aspiring 1HeartArt artist.
1HeartArt is also sponsoring an art contest with the public as judges of the artwork. To see some of the artwork, check out the Huffington Post article, or go to the 1HeartArt.org website.
Photo, "Jazz" by Darrion Harris.
1HeartArt raises funds for former inmates pursuing art, as well as for students whose parents are serving time in prison. They also offer a penpal program inviting anyone to write a letter and form a connection with an aspiring 1HeartArt artist.
1HeartArt is also sponsoring an art contest with the public as judges of the artwork. To see some of the artwork, check out the Huffington Post article, or go to the 1HeartArt.org website.
Photo, "Jazz" by Darrion Harris.
Tools of the Trade
Kisa Foundation USA donated a laptop computer to Josephine Namuwawu, a student in the Hotel & Institutional Catering program at Kampala YMCA. The computer will help Josephine to produce high quality school papers and research.
Kisa Foundation USA. KFUSA is helping Josephine and two other Ugandan young people to complete their education.
Kisa Foundation USA. KFUSA is helping Josephine and two other Ugandan young people to complete their education.
KIFAD Workshop
We held a two-day bead-making and painting workshop for about 75 young people at Kiyita Family Alliance (KIFAD) in Nansana August 23-24. James Nsamba, Farouk Mukwaya and Peter Kalyongo were the teachers. The colorful beads are made from narrow strips cut from pages of discarded magazines. The strips are rolled up, then glued and varnished. Glue can be made from banana skins. The kids also created a large acrylic-on-canvas painting.
Children's Art Exhibition at Georgetown University
Uganda Art Consortium has joined with the Art in Kibera Project to host an exhibition of art by Ugandan and Kenyan children.
The Exhibition will be held at Georgetown University in Washington DC in the Inter Cultural Center Galleria Sept. 29th-30th and October 3rd-4th from 9AM to 9 PM.
Georgetown Associate Vice President Charles De Santis and Margaret Halpin, Dean in the School of Foreign Service conduct art classes for children every summer in the Art in Kibera program in Nairobi Kenya.
From Uganda, artwork from UAC's free kids art workshops at Sanyuko Ministries will also be on display. The show which is sponsored by the Georgetown African Interests Network, which will hold a reception Sept. 28 to open the exhibition and celebrate the 3rd anniversary of the group.
The Exhibition will be held at Georgetown University in Washington DC in the Inter Cultural Center Galleria Sept. 29th-30th and October 3rd-4th from 9AM to 9 PM.
Georgetown Associate Vice President Charles De Santis and Margaret Halpin, Dean in the School of Foreign Service conduct art classes for children every summer in the Art in Kibera program in Nairobi Kenya.
From Uganda, artwork from UAC's free kids art workshops at Sanyuko Ministries will also be on display. The show which is sponsored by the Georgetown African Interests Network, which will hold a reception Sept. 28 to open the exhibition and celebrate the 3rd anniversary of the group.
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- 23-Dec-2012
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Nansana News Blog features community news from Nansana, Uganda written by reporters and interns from Kisa Foundation USAs Nansanet Project. Nansanet will soon be launched as a community news website serving the people of our town. Read more about Nansanet here. While we are still in the process of building the website and developing our organization, several journalism interns are already at work. They have been busy learning about the community and writing stories about the people, issues and institutions that make up our town. Following are some of those stories. (More about Nansanet)
