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RELAY PRO 2011 KENYA SLUM

"The slum is a world city flooded, the guilty conscience of colonial regimes, internal policy obstructionist. The social and economic isolation is overwhelming, CES are informal, non-riconosicmento by the government , landfills are considered abusivi.Gli slums of the great human city. faces from afar, in perspective, these urban areas that are expanding more and more every year that look like giant mouths engulf lives ... however, are enormous sources of people , ideas, motivations, experiences that if empowered to express themselves and discuss the basis of their potential to lead to a solution of the problems that afflict them, can be places to start a revolution that will lead to growth and development of the same. For years I wandered in different slums in Nairobi and I came to the conclusion that these sites of discomfort can become sites for development. "

Valentina Acava Mmaka and Peter Kuria Asamba by JOURNEY REVERSED.

The Project 2001 PRO SLUM is aimed at the upgrading of slums in Nairobi with an intervention that aims to involve directly the population living illegal squatters in these areas where the struggle for survival often takes pieghe drammatiche.
L'idea è quella di creare un Centro Sperimentale di Arti e Formazione all'interno di uno slum di Nairobi offrendo alla popolazione dello stesso e degli slum limitrofi un polo di attività attraverso le quali mettere in atto una rivoluzione culturale, sociale ed economica di cui il Kenya di oggi ha urgente bisogno. Contrariamente alle politiche adottate dalle numerose missioni e delle ong internazionali che inquadrano il proprio lavoro in un'ottica assistenzi alista, il progetto PRO SLUM è un progetto di africani per africani. La strada dello slum è la palestra delle possibilità, dell'improvvisazione, del quotidiano. Creare una sinergia tra i vari slum from a direct involvement of people who live there, asking them to make decisions and evaluate actions to improve their living places, is the key to this revolution from below. Become aware of their urban social context, tell within it, to compare ideas, emotions, thoughts means closer to the real issues that affect them and recognize them makes it possible to address without the illusion that anyone can do it for them.

The art workshops and training courses as well as provide an opportunity to meet and exchange experiences, is to enable individuals ia attending to learn how to self in your environment and create a network of self sustaining, to make the slum dwellers are independent. allowing individuals to get out of their disadvantaged position category , creating activities that make them economically independent and socially. addition to training activities, the Center will organize public events, even traveling to involve a larger number retraining. The first trained subjects can return to their slum forming themselves into creating such a widespread dissemination of ideas, initiatives and projects.
The Experimental Center will offer a variety opportunities because individual communities become independent and have a voice where it is often silenced: the writing workshops, theater, fashion and styling, design, cooking, painting will be accompanied by training courses on environmental conservation, the ' health information and the reduction of petty crime.

implementing the project. PRO SLUM, Nomadic Subjects that will shoot a DOUMENTARIO tell aspects of daily life in Kenya, women, children, life in the slums and but in a different perspective from that usually unknown. We believe that to describe reality with honesty is necessary to highlight first of all the aspects and characteristics that make a positive community, geographical area, a place of potential. Telling the slums in the round without losing the essence .

distribution / sale of this documentary by the photographers Lorenzo Mosca will have a dual role in the project: one part will spread a broad and comprehensive knowledge about Kenya and the His multifaceted humanity, on the other make for Training and Research Centre of the Arts because we believe that art and creativity can give rise to a socio-cultural revolution that will stimulate and kindle attention to social emergencies. Looking at the images of the slum, there may be doubt about the necessity or feasibility of such a project, but we who live in the slums of Nairobi and we are, we know that is the right way because, beyond those sheets and rags are brilliant minds and potential emergencies that may implement a change without filters and mediations.

    ACTIONS IN SUPPORT OF KENYA SLUM PROJECT PRO 2011  
   

The proposal to subject Nomad is to give life to a real relay between different cities Italian and foreign (see Kabiliana ) to organize events that raise funds for the project. Anyone who wants to participate in this relay can write to associazionesoggettonomade (at) yahoo (dot) com or call 333 2919864 and ask for our sotegno with a presentation of the project and indicate the participation Modes. Lle are endless ways to participate:
organize a dinner with friends, selling used items, auction of their works (if you're an artist).
The relay will also have a virtual feedback, each participating city verrà registrata, commentata e fotografata. AL termine (previsto per fine marzo 2011) verròà realizzata una presnetazione che andrà a completare il Documentario girato in Kenya a compendio degli sforzi e della partecipazione attiva di luoghi e persone.

A tutti gli amici che vorranno sostenerci un augurio perché il 2011 possa unire i nostri sogni a quelli dei nostri fratelli kenioti che attendono un nuovo inizio.
valentina a. mmaka peter kuria asamba
(promotori del progetto)