News update

The work of UZIMA Foundation in the first two months of 2008 has been dominated by the response to the violence that followed the announcement of the 2007 presidential election results which were released after a flawed vote tallying processes. This violence is unprecedented in Kenya which has always been regarded, by the international community as well as by Kenyans, as an oasis of peace in a unstable region of the world. This violence has resulted in people being injured or even killed and property worth billions of shillings destroyed. Large numbers of people, and indeed whole communities, have been affected by the violence with some ending up in Internally Displaced Persons camps across the country.

During the Kenyan crisis, UZIMA Foundation has been working in the Rift Valley province, which was the epic centre of the post election violence, in Western and Nyanza provinces as well as in the heart of Nairobi. Please click here to read a summary of the initial report.

Specific news updates will resume during March 2008.

Loise Manyange Osoro

Age: 28
Group: Ushirika Youth Group – Nyanza
Date joined UZIMA: 1998

Activities:
Cultural festivals
Community work
Help orphans
Cabbages for sale
Reproductive health
Chicken for sale
Disseminated UZIMA
Formed new groups

Maureen Obonyo Auma

Age: 26
UZIMA Group: Kibera UZIMA youth group
Date Joined: 2000

Activities: Alternative to Violence Programme training, Peer educations training, business training, Committee member youth convention, drama, football, peer education outreaches, represented UZIMA in meetings, worked on the UZIMA peace initiative after the post election violence

Richard Mufaga

Age:25
UZIMA Group: Riruta/Satellite - Nairobi
Date joined UZIMA: 2000

Activities with UZIMA

Business loan to launch his graphic design business
Alternative to Violence Programme Training
Business Tool-Kit Training
Reproductive Health
Annual convention
Peer Educator to primary and high school children on HIV/AIDS and drug abuse

Western Report Feb 2008

The work of UZIMA Foundation in the first two months of 2008 has been dominated by the response to the violence that followed the announcement of the 2007 presidential election results which were released after a flawed vote tallying processes. This violence is unprecedented in Kenya which has always been regarded, by the international community as well as by Kenyans, as an oasis of peace in a unstable region of the world. This violence has resulted in people being injured or even killed and property worth billions of shillings destroyed. Large numbers of people, and indeed whole communities, have been affected by the violence with some ending up in Internally Displaced Persons camps across the country.

During the Kenyan crisis, UZIMA Foundation has been working in the Rift Valley province, which was the epic centre of the post election violence, in Western and Nyanza provinces as well as in the heart of Nairobi. Please click here to read a summary of the initial report.

Field office specific updates will resume next month.

Nyanza Report Feb 2008

The work of UZIMA Foundation in the first two months of 2008 has been dominated by the response to the violence that followed the announcement of the 2007 presidential election results which were released after a flawed vote tallying processes. This violence is unprecedented in Kenya which has always been regarded, by the international community as well as by Kenyans, as an oasis of peace in a unstable region of the world. This violence has resulted in people being injured or even killed and property worth billions of shillings destroyed. Large numbers of people, and indeed whole communities, have been affected by the violence with some ending up in Internally Displaced Persons camps across the country.

During the Kenyan crisis, UZIMA Foundation has been working in the Rift Valley province, which was the epic centre of the post election violence, in Western and Nyanza provinces as well as in the heart of Nairobi. Please click here to read a summary of the initial report.

Field office specific updates will resume next month.

Nairobi Report Feb 2008

The work of UZIMA Foundation in the first two months of 2008 has been dominated by the response to the violence that followed the announcement of the 2007 presidential election results which were released after a flawed vote tallying processes. This violence is unprecedented in Kenya which has always been regarded, by the international community as well as by Kenyans, as an oasis of peace in a unstable region of the world. This violence has resulted in people being injured or even killed and property worth billions of shillings destroyed. Large numbers of people, and indeed whole communities, have been affected by the violence with some ending up in Internally Displaced Persons camps across the country.

During the Kenyan crisis, UZIMA Foundation has been working in the Rift Valley province, which was the epic centre of the post election violence, in Western and Nyanza provinces as well as in the heart of Nairobi. Please click here to read a summary of the initial report.

Field office updates will resume next month.

UZIMA working in the Kenyan Crisis

Kenya has been shaken to its core by violence that rocked all corners of the country following the announcement of the 2007 presidential election results which were released after a flawed vote tallying processes. Read more

UZIMA Kenya crisis report

UZIMA Foundation will soon release its first report on the Kenyan post election violence. Read more

UZIMA youth in IDP camps